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Faced with this new demand, architects find themselves confronted with an age-old problem. The oldest solution to building an ideal structure for listening still seems the best; the ancient Greek and Roman amphitheaters were often acoustically so good that a sigh on stage carried to the farthest row. How to get the same characteristics under a roof and still make room for 100-piece orchestras, huge choral groups and whole opera companies with their oversize sets, ballet corps and costume designers is testing anew the ingenuity of the present generation of architects. Among their solutions...
...going the way of the Cross." It is perhaps not too far-fetched to suggest that Simone Weil's obsession with becoming "the equal of God" was, on its less attractive side, a form of spiritual social-climbing, and that her willful, lifelong pursuit of wretchedness was the age-old sin of pride in the paradoxical guise of a bitter humility, that of wishing to be crucified in a surrogate Crucifixion...
...position (on the back with legs flexed on the abdomen) for a woman in the second stage of labor is "simply a newfangled fad," said the University of Mississippi's Dr. Michael Newton. "Sitting, kneeling, squatting or other positions have been used for countless generations'... In discarding age-old positions, have we adopted a technique which is simply more convenient for the mother's attendants?" The primitive positions enable the woman to use her uterine contractions much more effectively, Dr. Newton believes. His prescription: an adjustable back rest on the labor table so that the mother...
...waters for abalone. The islanders' lives are far from a song. But when they rise from the earthen floors of the dark, dank-smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...
...pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades ago, the West's Promethean spirit of change collides with the East's age-old piety of tradition, and both lose...