Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunset in the Yosemite Valley, 1868. The sun is hidden by a crag as though it were the unspeakable name of Yahweh. When Frederic Church painted Cotopaxi, 1862, he deliberately invoked the creation of the world-a panorama of sifting red light, boiling vapors, lakes emptying over the abyss, and a volcano in the background. Even when it was less convulsive than a Mexican volcano or the sliding lip of Niagara Falls, American nature could and did provide feelings of intense religiosity. A painting like Sandford Gifford's Kauterskill Falls, 1862, with its vast panorama of woods dissolving...
...Abyss of Sin. Like many a Christian before him, John Wright has been touched by the "good news" of Jesus' life, teachings and atoning death-the redemptive message that Anglo-Saxons dubbed the godspel and early Greek Christians called the euangelion. Among modern American Protestants, enthusiasts like Wright are identified as evangelicals because they give an urgent priority to spreading the gospel announcement. They want every human being to experience the truth that Jesus died to redeem him from the abyss of sin; they preach that faith in Jesus as Lord and Saviour is necessary for salvation, that...
...order position. Mysticism is a good thing, in his opinion, for those who can handle it, but he fears that mass inflation of the transcendental could bring on an epidemic of "cosmic insanity." He wisely advises the unwary neophyte to look carefully before he leaps into the abyss of being...
Dance on the Abyss. As revolution is fomented, Sabatini tracks his hero through dazzling careers of evasion and revenge. To elude the police and pursue his enemy, he becomes in succession a republican agitator, a celebrated actor and a political assassin. The final confrontation of hero and villain produces a wild surprise ending...
...laughter," Sabatini announces in the novel's opening sentence, "and a sense that the world was mad." Scaramouche, in fact, is the type of the homme engagé, the modern intellectual activist. All his acts are the free acts of a man who dances his existence upon the abyss of nothingness. Today the notion that only the crazy are sane in a world gone mad would hardly rattle an espresso cup. It was not so in Sabatini's time. By a singular stroke of intuition, he created an existentialist hero almost a decade before Jean-Paul Sartre raised...