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...year since Columbine has been one of ferment among youthful Evangelicals. Shaken yet inspired by what they see as the martyrdom of Christian students--and encouraged by a decade-old Supreme Court decision affirming student-led, after-school Christian clubs--they have shown a new assertiveness. The movement's political arm, meanwhile, insists that reinstatement of adult-led class prayer is the best way to prevent new carnage...
Jesus wants to find a middle ground between irreverence and irrelevance, promising a Saviour (Jeremy Sisto) who laughs and emotes like the blue-collar rabble rouser he was in the New Testament. It takes steps toward greater realism, putting the political ferment of Christ's time in the foreground, but ends up a traditional, staid epic that is double-dipped in ham-fisted dramatics...
Olga Rozanova (1886-1918) left behind a legacy of art, poetry and theoretical articles that provides a key to understanding the cultural ferment of the early avant-garde movement in Russia. Her collaboration with the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh sought to overcome the boundaries that separate poetry from art. The two worked together on various projects, mostly editions of lithographic futurist books, enthused by the idea that words should serve as visual symbols that lack any specific meaning...
...walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana beer...
...certain moral milieu, and that moral milieu gives rise to action. If, as a University and as a country, we wish to inculcate dispositions of racial harmony and toleration, then we should start by rejecting today's implicit then we should start by rejecting the today's civil rights ferment and re-embrace the Enlightenment ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights movement. Who knows? We might even get a few more good actors coming...