昨年末、フランスの舞踏家シルヴィー・ギエムの東京公演を観た。ギエム最後の「ボレロ」という触れ込みで、当日は東京文化会館大ホールもほぼ満席のようだった。ボレロと言えば、モーリス・ベジャール振り付けによるジョルジュ・ドンの踊りを映画で見た向きが多いだろう。hypnoticなまでに反復を重ねるラヴェルの音楽、汗を飛び散らせ神懸かり的に舞うドンの身体。ボレロと聞けば、その組み合わせが反射的に脳裏に浮かぶ。 . . . 本文を読む
What you must never forget is the importance for our own lives of tolerance, reason and humanity -- the three fundamental principles of the Enlightenment. Because of them we no longer take someone sus . . . 本文を読む
A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstr . . . 本文を読む
My life suddenly became much more chaotic. I realized that we can't control our lives. Life might just pick you up and drop you somewhere else. You just have to dignify the position you land in, becau . . . 本文を読む
Research, as I have said, is progressive; it involves invention or discovery of something new. And it often leads to new techniques or products, for which it is highly rewarded. Scholarship, by contra . . . 本文を読む
In our field, it takes a while to know enough to have anything useful to say. Humanists develop more slowly than scientists, because we need to learn more and assimilate this learning in our lives in . . . 本文を読む
Myths are far more comforting than statistics, in part because they allow us to distance ourselves from the tragedy enough to allow us to acknowledge how deeply frightened and moved we are by it, but . . . 本文を読む
tsunami. Also (repr. a strict transliteration of the Jap. form) tunami.
[a. Jap. tsunami, tunami, f. tsu harbour + nami waves.]
A brief series of long, high undulations on the surface of the sea cause . . . 本文を読む
'You are a born storyteller,' said the old lady. 'You had the sense to see you were caught in a story, and the sense to see you could change it to another one. And the special wisdom to recognise that . . . 本文を読む
Cold Genius:'What power art thou, who from below
'Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
'From beds of everlasting snow?
'See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
'Far unfit to bear the bitter cold, . . . 本文を読む