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Still, the equipment can transcend its demanding and intimidating nature. In a way, it's beautiful: the ordered levers on the light board which make light and darkness respond to to touch of a finger, a button that makes part of the stage go up and down...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: What Makes Techies Run | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...combination of the lyrics and the music creates sadness, loneliness, and despair--the Blues--and yet the sound of his slashing harp and insistent flowing rhythm section indicate that despite his blues Sonny boy can still swing and by singing and playing the Blues he is able to transcend his blues...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...throughout the magazine. New sections also prove to be eminently suitable departments for stories that might never have found space in the magazine at all. Essay, which first ran in the issue of April 2, 1965, gave the editors a section with the scope to handle major questions that transcend the boundaries of several departments or demand treatment of near cover length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...involvement with life, into two separate characters, joyfully granting Zorba, who lusts for life, the final triumph. In his greatest novels, fictionalized versions of the lives of St. Francis and Christ, he portrayed both as men deeply drawn to the fleshly world but agonizingly aware that they must eventually transcend it. While he was writing The Last Temptation of Christ, Kazantzakis admitted in a letter: "I felt what Christ felt. I became Christ." God is "action," he wrote, "replete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Willing Spirit | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...firm executives, and representatives of the art world should decide these questions. The committee would be called SFART (Student-Faculty Art). Its student-members would be elected by students in each House and its faculty members, of course, would be appointed by Dean Ford, (in keeping with traditions that transcend normal democracy.). Such a committee could handle these problems as they arise. In the meantime, on second thought, a stern warning from the Dean of Students will be enough to stay the malicious brushes of these long-haired youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Art | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

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