Word: wisdoms
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...previously a tortuous undertaking. But this year a Chicago foundation hired scholar Daniel Matt, author of The Essential Kabbalah, to write the Zohar's first complete English translation with commentary. Volume I is due in 2000. A long time ago, Hasidic sage Manahem Mendel of Perimishlany said, "Calling the wisdom of Kabbalah hidden is strange. Whoever wants to learn--the book is readily available." He didn't know how right...
Badu's 12-minute rendition of the hit "Next Lifetime" comes close to perfection, finding new heartache, wisdom and charm in the hit. Sounding like Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, the song climaxes first in a soulful whirl that is followed by Badu's backup singers scatting into heaven. "I'll be the moon shine on you/I'll be the womb give you fruit/I'll be heaven love me right/I'll be divine give you light," Badu sings at the end. Here, as on the entire album, she proves that although she is not the second coming of Billie Holiday, Erykah...
...used village wisdom to urge Americans to take a tougher stand on Beijing ? ?If you look aside when gangsters abuse your neighbors, then you will never be safe," he opines. "Only when all people band together against such gangsters will all be safe.? But he was quickly eclipsed by those Iowa infants ? who, in the battle for ratings, command many more divisions than...
...women singers assumed that having babies would short-circuit their careers, and chose not to. Similarly, opera stars who sang pop music were invariably condemned for pandering to the proles (Ezio Pinza starred in South Pacific, but only after he retired from the Metropolitan Opera). And according to conventional wisdom, niceness was a luxury ambitious sopranos couldn't afford, moving, as they do, in a viciously competitive environment controlled almost entirely by male conductors, directors and managers...
...which surrounds all of Garcia Lorca's work: however lucid the image, the atmosphere remains more beautiful than the real, somehow symbolic, like a beautiful dream. We never know exactly why Yerma does not become pregnant. Moriarity's old woman would have it that Juan is infertile; the traditional wisdom of the village gossips suggests that Yerma is infertile because she somehow doesn't really want or deserve a child; Yerma herself rages against the "fate" whichs eems to have condemned her. Depending on which system of values the viewer uses to read the play--the rational, the magical...