Word: abyss
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...Rails. Earnest, articulate and somehow despairingly sanguine, Ginsberg at 43 is busy providing a kind of air-ferry service across the contemporary great divides: the generation gap and the moral abyss that seem to separate absolutist youth from pragmatic age. Behind Ginsberg's freaky fagade there has always been a core of pure humanism and of religion-in an almost planetary sense. In an era in which most people accept violence as the way life is, Ginsberg has managed to remain fervently gentle. If he still calls for nothing less than a complete revolution, he also insists that...
...kind of novelist," says Anthony Burgess, "whom you sit down to with a Scotch or an apple." In a rare moment of explicit self-exposure, Nabokov once explained: "While I keep everything on the very brink of parody, there must be on the other hand an abyss of seriousness, and I must make my way along this narrow ridge between my own truth and the caricature...
...excitement is exceeded only by a visual and dramatic richness on all levels. Becoming acquainted with Ford is a wondrous process ultimately involving a rediscovery of America through Ford's extraordinary vision. At best, Ford's films redeem America, as Hawks' films redeem 20th century man from the abyss into which he has tumbled. We are better for their vision and insight, greater by virtue of the tradition and myth they have created to support...
...pain-killing happy ending, it should be made clear that Cheever means by his four "wonderfuls" very much the same bitter things conveyed in the famous five "nothings" of King Lear. There are no dizzy precipices edging the smug suburban surface of Bullet Park. There is, however, the "portable abyss" of the commuter's 7:46 a.m. to Grand Central...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, bedrock of international intellect since the birth of America, today trembled on the lip of an abyss. The academic home of some of the world's most distinguished leaders, past and present, finds itself bleeding and embattled--fighting to retain a 331-year history unique in the annals of education...