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-64 posts tagged "love"
Sophia Michetti | Thursday, October 15, 2020
I didn’t realize how much I had missed Chris Harrison until he graced my TV screen last Tuesday night, introducing Clare Crawley as the lead for the sixteenth season of “The Bachelorette.” The Bachelor franchise has been a major component of American pop culture for as long as I can remember, and this season may
Sydni Brooks | Tuesday, October 13, 2020
So you got played. Whether it was by a friend, a family member or a lover, things hit the fan, and the fan obliterated whatever the thing was. You’ve been trying to put the pieces back together to formulate some resemblance of what things were to salvage the relationship you had, but half of the
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Fiona Apple just wants to be loved. She tries to say as much on the first cut of “Fetch the Bolt Cutters:” “I want somebody to want / and I want what I want and I want / You to love me.” And it’s love she’s received, from critics across the board, the most lavish
Jake Winningham | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
“Wondering what you’re doing / what you’re listening to / which corner of the Moon you’re viewing from your bedroom / … I’m thinking of you too.” — Courtney Bartnett “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) / i am never without it” — E. E. Cummings “You know that
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
In these times of fear and uncertainty, when our daily lives are severely disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak, many people forget what “greatness” truly means. Indeed, doesn’t this pandemic show that, biologically speaking, human beings are as vulnerable to disease and death as other creatures in the animal world? At a time when we do
Gina Twardosz | Monday, March 23, 2020
“The ugly truth of the matter is this,” Rob Brooks, played by Zoe Kravitz, laments at the end of the first episode of Hulu’s “High Fidelity.” “If we suddenly heard that the world was going to end in 24 hours, the people I would call in the first hour would be the obvious: my parents,
Gina Twardosz | Sunday, February 16, 2020
While Valentine’s Day is a time for romance, Friday’s “Fall in Love with Wellness” Student Health Fair encouraged students to practice self love with self care. The fair featured dozens of informational booths from campus and community organizations, therapy dogs, spin class demos, giveaways and an escape room. Heather Abbott, a counselor at the Saint
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, February 13, 2020
Fictional character Leslie Knope marked Feb. 13 as a day for “ladies celebrating ladies” in the now-infamous “Galentine’s Day” episode of television show “Parks and Recreation.” Since then, the Knope-ism has exploded into a real holiday, which has become a nationwide celebration of female friendship. “Here at Saint Mary’s, Galentine’s Day allows us to focus
Alexander Daugherty | Monday, April 15, 2019
The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg survey the audience as they settle in for Anton Juan’s stage adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.” When the show starts, an unsettling short film, depicting fragments of 1920s culture in the United States, projects over Eckleburg’s gaze. The lights slowly rise over a party that most certainly could not
Campus Ministry | Monday, February 18, 2019
How many times have we rejected something and/or someone because of his or her supposed “insignificance?” Recently in my Moreau class, my students were asked to reflect on a YouTube video about St. Andre Bessette. In the video, Fr. Steve Lacroix states, “Brother Andre is very special to Holy Cross because, of all the people