Word: brink
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...would appear from "Second Thoughts About Man" that modern rationalists are trembling on the brink of the stupendous discovery that "man has an irreducible core of evil"-which seems to be intellectualese for the old-fashioned concept that he is a sinner. Is it possible that after wandering for years in the wilderness with Marx, Freud and Darwin, they are about to return to the Father's house...
This is the story of Dwayne Hoover, a Pontiac dealer in Midland City, U.S.A. As Kurt Vonnegut explains on the opening page, Hoover is "on the brink of going insane." He has many reasons of the traditional kind: his wife went mad and killed herself by swallowing Drano; his hostile son is a homosexual who plays piano in a cocktail lounge; and his mistress, of whom he wants to know "what life is all about," suggests that the site across from their motel room would be a good place for him to buy her a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken...
...most academics are too sublimating, is Kott too abominating? Characteristically he keeps his intellectual balance on the brink of nihilism by reaching out, not to Aristotle but to a Resistance fighter named Albert Camus. In paraphrase of Camus, Kott writes: "Prometheus' greatness is his revolt without hope." Like a banner he majestically raises Camus' fine and all-important distinction: "Being deprived of hope is not despairing." No 20th century margin shaver could come closer to making Sophocles a contemporary. Melvin Maddocks
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Sarah Brink, harpsichordist, in recital. April...
What saves Moravia from post-Romantic banality is a special feeling for women as the quintessentially damned. It is as if, by depicting the life givers at the brink of spiritual death, he has dramatized for himself all the bleakness of modern existence...