Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout you blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors...
...think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors...
...Argentina's Eva Peron, who began with "every disadvantage you need if you're gonna succeed./No money, no class, no father." Before she died at 33, Eva had risen to prominence as an actress, married military leader Juan Peron, helped him become Argentina's president and achieved near-sainthood in the eyes of the working class, known as the descamisados or "shirtless ones...
...Adams production of Agnes of God is as emotional and moving an exploration of the place of religion and sainthood in modern society as one could wish to see. The difficult and often heart-wrenching questions of what constitutes true blessedness and of the appropriateness of such a state of grace in the 20th century are discussed and disected with a rhetorical grace and lack of dogmatic insistence that makes the work a constant joy to witness...
Similarily, Andra Gordon does a marvelous job as the ambiguously innocent Agnes. She treads the narrow line between insanity and sainthood with all the fey grace that could be desired. As she floats across the stage, she resembles nothing so much as an unnaturally ethereal pre-Raphaelite saint, with her haze of red hair and huge desperate eyes. Her feet scarcely seem to touch the ground. She appears moored to the earth by only the most fragile of bonds, ready at the slightest inclination to cast off her moorings and soar off the stage. It is perhaps fortunate...