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With individual accomplishments off the radar, the team remains focused on continuing its rise to Ivy powerhouse status...
...will depend on the economic and legal merits of the case and rise and fall on that,” Ferrell said...
Isabel Q. Carey ’12 conveys through her body the psychological destruction of her mind. In the scene where Katurian rescues her from torture, the pair rise and fall together in a dance sequence that captures the heartbreakingly graceful fragility of their limp and beaten bodies. Later, Carey imbues her psychologically stunted character with charming youthful energy, pulling at her toes, stretching her arms, and kicking up her feet in a convincing portrayal of youthful vibrancy. Carey navigates her role with nuance, as she is able to realize the wide-eyed, giggly antics of Michal without verging...
...tracking the development of a “new” art form that, considering the work of artists as diverse as Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett—both of whom Shields references extensively throughout his book—can be said to have developed along with the rise of modernity...
...doctrine of celibacy is older than Christianity, starting with hermits and ascetics who alienated themselves from society and thought they could become closer to divinity by eschewing sex. It was hundreds of years later, with the rise of monasteries and convents, that the Catholic Church made celibacy an official doctrine and requirement for the priesthood and for nuns. Since those far-off days the doctrine has led to all kinds of secret sins being committed by the priesthood, usually against adults, but also against children. Instead of the Pope making heart-rending apologies for the crimes of priests, he should...