"But have you noticed how empty their churches are?" Queta's genius has been to create out of her Catholic faith an inclusive syncretic ritual: a Rosary, which is recited complete with Hail Marys and the Lord's Prayer; special prayers for those in jail; and a culminating, quasi-Pentecostal moment when the faithful all lift their effigy to Heaven to "charge it with energy".
In class, they sing or recite the completed lyrics back to her. "A lot of our bilingual kids are very shy, and they feel like outsiders," said Ms. Poli, whose parents immigrated from Ecuador.
The fine English actor Alec McCowen used to do a one-man show in which he recited Mark, complete, and his Jesus came alive instantly as a familiar human type — the Gandhi-Malcolm-Martin kind of charismatic leader of an oppressed people, with a character that clicks into focus as you begin to dramatize it.
ALEX R. Afghanistan Remember back when sergeants were the kind of guys who could bend steel with their bare hands while reciting the complete works of Thomas Paine and drawing you a diagram of how to best fold a dress shirt?
It seems schools expect them to demonstrate what we already know -- recite dates and complete calculations that could be done on a computer -- rather then create knew knowledge.
There are probably about 20 I could recite for you: "You complete me"; "Show me the money"; and "I love black people!" But that line from Cuba Gooding Jr as Rod Tidwell about Jerry having sex with a single mother – "a real man wouldn't shoplift the pootie from a single mom" – is just brilliant.
Tim Rushton, the Danish company's British director, offered a more provocative bill on Sunday afternoon in two pieces danced to recited Beat-era texts, complete with four-letter words that some newspapers print only when used by the vice president of the United States.
The next day at Thimpu's Chorten Memorial, a stupa built to commemorate the reign of the current King Jigme Khesar Namgyel's great grandfather, I joined hundreds of Buddhist devotees as they recited mantras and completed laps around its tall golden spires.
I had, just a moment before learning about the visit, completed reciting the Mourner's Kaddish, (a prayer said by mourners) as it was my father's Yahrtzeit (the anniversary of my father's death).
"You see other people complete the process of reciting Kaddish and you see others begin to mourn," she said.
