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...Perhaps in subtle deference to this irony, the seal adopted in 1780 replaced the childlike Native American begging for help with the taciturn, muscled man standing upright that appears today. In a way, the image evokes Rousseau’s “noble savage,” emerging from the wilderness not as a barbarous or murderous villain but as a simple representation of the primitivist and paternalistic fantasy Europeans held about North America, a fantasy which envisaged the new continent as the seat of an uncorrupted paradise. His arrow pointed down in peace, his gaze forward, the hero...
...Davey’s study. The 1996 photograph “Otis” shows the room crowded with shelves of books, low-hanging fluorescent lights, and assorted stereo equipment. The print’s title is ostensibly a reference to an Otis Redding CD that is propped upright atop a stack of vinyl records. Judging from the books on photography (“Legacy of Light”) and art theory, this is Davey’s center of operations. Fast forward three years to “Yma,” and we see the same room with...
...advantage of Somerville Theater’s excellent acoustics. Bass notes seemingly resonated forever, and higher parts sounded full and organic. Merritt played mostly rhythm on the bouzouki, sharing lead vocals with pianist Claudia Gonson and Shirley Simms, the band’s new singer. Claudia’s upright piano was padded to muffle high-frequency resonance, yielding full but unobtrusive background chords and soft, understated scraps of twee melody. Individually, Shirley, Claudia, and Merritt are quite capable vocalists; together, however, they are far more than the sum of their parts. Their voices are perfectly suited to three-part...
...you’re in the know, you’ll ride up front. 9) There are no fortune cookies in China... 10) ...Instead, your fortune is up to you: the color red and number eight are lucky. 11) What’s bad luck? Leaving chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice. 12) Defy Western manners: eating with your mouth open is acceptable. In fact, slurping hot noodles is a compliment to the chef. 13) Get your cup of joe before visiting the Forbidden City: the Starbucks there has been removed. 14) Afraid to hawk a loogie in Cambridge...
...guidelines are an attempt to reconcile what is best for the patient - providing treatment that may help - and what is ethically upright. They also reveal a fundamental change in the way modern scientists view the relationship between mind and body. In 1979, a similar survey of American doctors found that 60% of respondents believed that using placebos was a good way to deduce whether a patient had a "real" problem or was just faking it. In the current study, 80% of doctors disagreed with that statement. "That's a significant shift in doctors' thinking in a relatively short time," says...