LAFAYETTE'S SPIRIT OFFSETS MATERIAL; Coach McCracken Calls His Squad Greenest and Lightest in Six Years.
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Going over the top in this vein, however, Alex Grey posits the artist as the ultimate mediator, the channel through which pure spirit achieves material form.
The solutions of institutionalizing poverty in priesthood and monasticism, while rationalizing poverty as poverty of the spirit and material wealth as God's provision for ministry, formed the basis for medieval care of the poor.
Another Blue Note pianist offered a mystical revelation: Lion regarded Thelonious Monk as "the holy grail of jazz", and said he was proud to be "the first to put his radical and unorthodox ideas on wax", which makes it sound as if recording was a way of trapping spirit in material form.
Descending into the darkness, a slight whiff of frankincense in the air, she passes a sugar-cane stalk, symbol, she says, of "sweet good luck," and a small statue of St. Lazarus, representing the Haitian divinity Legba, the gatekeeper between spirit and material worlds.
The Catholic matrix of Fanny's poems is incarnational and assumes an informing spirit in material existence, an ultimate reality outside language informing the contentions of emotional and spiritual life which language in its indirections seeks to apprehend and express.
At 60 minutes, however, the album runs at least three songs too long, spoiling the tension and spirit with material that is plain gushy and, still, lame.
In the same spirit, reclaimed materials were used in the renovation wherever possible.
