Word: angels
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Harvey made the arrangement, effective from January to June of this year, with Janus Films, which distributes 66 movies, including most of the films of Ingmar Bergman and Francois Truffaut, such famous movies as Rules of the Game, Citizen Kane and The Blue Angel, and other, less well-known films. According to Carl King, executive vice-president of Janus, the company has the exclusive distribution rights to about 90 per cent of its films...
...Patricia Nixon Niarchos announces her forthcoming book, Sex Crises. Other literary notes: In his new book, The City Really Stinks, Edward Banfield asserts: "What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god." In Cambridge, Dean May rejects Banfield's thesis that the Faculty is infinite. "Our Faculty is badly overworked," claims May tartly as he releases to the press the names of five new interim committees...
After the triumph of High Renaissance naturalism, it became hard to make an angel look as if it belonged in Heaven. That could only be accomplished by the sheer hallucinatory pressure of religious vision, skewed at an angle to match the orthodoxy of the times. The isolated exemplar was William Blake: in 1810, in Vision of the Last Judgment, angels danced on his retina: " 'What,' it will be Question'd, 'When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea?' O no, no, I see an Innumerable company...
...Angel painting never recovered from the blow dealt by the Reformation. After Luther's proposal that men could approach God directly by faith through grace, with no intermediaries, the angels were theologically unemployed. The gap they were meant to close had been written out of existence; they were reduced to mere attendant lords, thunderbolt carriers to swell a scene or two. Nineteenth century rationalism seemed to finish them off for good. The remark of a Victorian doctor, that he had never met the soul in a dissection, found its artistic parallel in Gustave Courbet...
Precisely. The physical shape of angels is only a metaphor, but the spiritual experience to which the now dead form refers may be very much alive. That is the process of revelation, of stepping between levels of awareness. "The angel," Carl Jung wrote, "personifies the coming into consciousness of something new arising from the deep unconscious." As the rigid boxes of 19th century positivism disappear from our culture and new epiphanies of consciousness unfold themselves, it is possible that we may return to that receptiveness in which earlier civilizations saw their angels. Except that, inevitably, we will call ours something...