Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrived in the morning, in time for a worship service at which King was to preach. I have to tell you about the spirit of the meeting, but the image I have of it is without the buoyancy, hope and excitement we felt that day. The image lacks these elements because although the congregation can be seen alive, moving, with faces expectant, there is no preacher behind the pulpit. But back to that morning in Alabama...
...more compelling of these tricks is Tarantino's playing with a kind of leitmotif song for a couple of characters, but this fades in and out and becomes a frustrating medley selection from, we are assured in reports, his extensive LP collection. Indulgence and soundtrack worship reaches an unbelievable point when we are forced to watch Forster's bondsman go to a record store, browse among tapes, and finally buy, quite clearly, a Delfonics hit. The merchandisers of old chestnut love songs must be rejoicing with a future return more guaranteed than the suddenly fortunate surf bands...
...Saturday lengthens into evening, the cathedral compound fills with the billowing white gabi, or shawls, that envelop men and women alike, serving as turban, blanket, veil. At their own rhythm, people go about the business of worship. Men read from leatherbound lives of the saints; women ululate softly as they lean on tall prayer rests. Everyone will keep the vigil through the night. As darkness falls, shrouded bundles occupy every empty space on the hard, stony ground, huddling around the dim golden flicker of tiny candles...
...lawyer and never wholly forgave him for becoming an artist. To Dove, as to the more conflicted Hartley, Stieglitz was mentor, friend and (virtually) a second father. Starting before World War I, Dove's slow-maturing, thoughtful and deeply felt art gathered up the strands of American nature worship and braided them in a way that linked back to Emerson and, through abstraction, sideways to European artists like Wassily Kandinsky...
...story of The Bacchae is probably rather familiar to most Harvard students by this point, but a quick summary shall be provided for those who are still confused: Dionysos is angry because the people of Thebes are refusing to worship him. He hypnotizes the town's women into running maniacally wild in the mountains. They are known as the Bacchae. Pentheus, the ruler of Thebes, tries to capture Dionysos in his human form. He also humiliates the god and his female band of helpers, called Maenads. Pentheus's secret desire to watch the lurid actions of the Bacchae...