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The “Heavenly City” is perhaps not Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Recall as well Jean Simmons preaching the Foursquare Gospel
in the 1960 film classic “Elmer Gantry” —
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
“Would you stay if she promised you heaven?” — Stevie Nicks
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Saturday, August 5, 2023
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Annals of Art: Foursquare Business Planning
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Eliot Illustrated
T.S. Eliot and
the music of poetry
Durham theses, Durham University, 1999
"Taking into consideration the Symbolist influence,
together with his preoccupation with language
and his interest in the musical quality inherent
in verse, one finds that Eliot's verse contains
a rhythmic movement that tends to sweep across
the whole line and links lines and stanzas together.
His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot
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Centerpiece
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland,
quoted here on May 18, 2017
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Square Dance
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And no fact of Alain Resnais’s life seemed to strike a stranger note than his assertion that the films which first inspired his ambition to become a film director were those in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced. Or was it Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler? He could never be sure. “I wondered if I could find the equivalent of that exhilaration,” he recalled. If he never did it was perhaps because of his highly cultivated attitude to serious cinema. His character and temperament were more attuned to the theory of film and a kind of intellectual square dance* which was far harder to bring to the screen with “exhilaration” than the art of Astaire and Rogers. *See today's 11 AM ET Sermon. |
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