At this time last year, while most people were preparing for turn-of-the-century celebrations, a segment of society firmly convinced that the end of the world was nigh was stockpiling goods.
"Certainly I wish there was a broader space of consensus that would turn the formation of the committee into a celebration in which all segments of the society participate," he said.
After screening this feature, pose the following questions to students for a brief discussion: -How does the Mardi Gras celebration featured in this video segment differ from the "celebration" associations they wrote in their journals?
The final segment, "Encounter, Crisis, Liberation, Celebration," included a song by Chris De Blasio from "The AIDS Quilt Songbook" and Bernstein's boldest affirmation of gay love, "To What You Said," from "Songfest," a setting of Whitman.
The beat-heavy capoeira rhythms are the soundtrack of Carnival and are featured on pretty much any TV segment on the annual celebration.
This weekend, I felt a little bit like I was a part of a Bill Geist segment on small town celebrations on CBS's Sunday Morning show.
Yet in the early 1970s work was in short supply, and Schlesinger took on the direction of a segment of the film in celebration of the Olympics, Visions Of Eight (1972).
As with all of Mr. Leonard's salon-like celebrations, the Simone affair included a postmeal entertainment segment, featuring "artists who are changing the landscape of the day," as Mr. Leonard described them.
The celebration was too much for two local FOX 35 reporters shooting a segment outside the stadium.
Others may disagree, but I didn't see the segment as an attack on organized religion, but rather as a celebration of a man who stuck to expansive ideas about just how big his God could be.
