Word: apocalypticism
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Zander described the piece as having “the power of Greek tragedy, the apocalyptic grandeur of ‘Oedipus Rex.’” To me, however, the beginning and end of the one-movement piece was more reminiscent of Dostoyevsky than Sophocles, with the...
At nine months, a human fetus has 100 billion neurons at its disposal. While most devote their 100 billion to such mundane pursuits as hearing or kicking, the title hero in Carlos Fuentes’ novel “Christopher Unborn” spins 500-plus pages of giddy prose...
The sandy bunkers of St. Andrews aren't the only tourist traps in the golf capital of Scotland. Just 14 km down the road, 30 m beneath a quaint stone farmhouse, is Scotland's Secret Bunker: the nuclear-proof headquarters for Scottish ministers, had the cold war got hot. Descend...
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But it was his gift for synthesizing that sent him into the depths of the forest and allowed him to bring it all back home in teeming poetry set to ancient lays. As he says in the documentary, "I'd taken all the elements that I've ever known to...