Word: eliotã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Several hours later, wherever Eliot??s Diaspora wound up, we were given the computer smoke-signal that all was clear. The crisis had passed. Those of us in our friends’ rooms immediately got the message, as we were incessantly checking e-mail for breaking news about the calamity, and we grudgingly returned home. Those wandering the streets were found the next morning by the Charles half-frozen to death, still oblivious to the fact that the danger had passed...
Even today, Eliot??s speech is regarded as the quintessential Harvard inauguration address, Gomes said...
...another successful segment, actors from the ART Institute performed, in an avant garde production, excerpts from T.S. Eliot??s The Waste Land, adapted and directed by Mercedes Murphy. Dealing (in part) with the barren aftermath of the tragedy of World War I, the poem took on new meaning in dealing with the tragedy, as New York City became the “Unreal City” of the poem. With harrowing background music by Samrat Chakrabarti, the difficult piece emerged as a relevant theatrical moment...
...Eliot??s Jimmy Fund walkers, the closing hours of Sunday’s marathon bring with them more than just burning muscles, but a hope to someday see these children enjoying their own moment or two of normalcy. They’re kids who love trains and purple and roses and want to be firemen, kids who seem shining and vital and alive even in a picture, even when seriously ill–and their photographs continue to line the route to the finish. By mile 24, nearing the end, past lunch at Wellesley and the miles...
...aftermath of catastrophe, no empathetic human being can offer a whole or holistic response. We can only, in T.S. Eliot??s evocative phrase, shore fragments against ruins, and hope they will last until time and human resilience enable rebuilding...