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...source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated codices of the 6th to 8th centuries, made and preserved in such monastic communities as Burrow, Kells and Lindisfarne. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gold from the Dark Ages | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...what he thought of the show. Bentley, a liberal Democrat with the tastes of the Brattle Street chic, was bound for the Law School after a year off. (That, in itself, surprised Long John. He had begun to think only young Marxists wanted to go to law school. To burrow from within, or so they said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control. But for all of his ACLU Nader's Raiders...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: The Man With the Lollipops | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

Friday night the Quincy House Music Society is sponsoring an informal jazz coffeehouse. The Amphion. Berklee piano student Peter Drescher is the featured act. Amphion's got its own coterie of student performers including Joe Reed, Hugh Burrow and Peter Fraenkel, who welcome you to sit in with them if you play a rhythm instrument. The Freebop Quintet is also on the bill. This week the session will meet in the Adams House JCR at 8. Thereafter Amphion will be held in the Quincy...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: JAZZ | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...Residuate: a "Borenverb" meaning to burrow into a fixed, immovable position while maintaining a low profile. Residuation is a survival practice often used by bureaucrats during changes of Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Danger: Residuators at Work | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...offset the poorly chosen script with a fine pair of actors. Ed Redlich's Murph swaggers and spits his lines with the air of someone who is not too bright but whose instinct will take care of him; he's like a chubby rodent that senses when to burrow and when to flee. Alan Stock plays a jittery boy with a cramped intelligence. His Joey is more attuned to emotions than is Murph: the taut nervousness in his shying gait, as though his hip joints were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems to stem from his sensitivity...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Horovitz's Complaint | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

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