Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schwab edited the journal of international poetry. Yggdrasil His appreciation of the German Romantics rests in particular on what he views as their spiritual assimilation of the Oriental. His treatment of Herder discerns in the pre-Romantic philosopher an awakened appreciation for primitive wisdom, the original versus the classic in poetry. Herder and Schelling are seen as the primary influences on Novalis's later search for a universal religion. He also discover overlays of Oriental motifs and values in "The Iranian Nieztsche" and "The Buddhism of Wagner...
...Cincinnati, who with her husband Richard, a retired postal worker, had accounts in Molitor Loan & Building. "My stomach just rolls over. They have got my whole life in that bank." The financial suffering in Ohio rattled consumers across the U.S. and worried foreign investors as well. In a classic sign of anxiety, moneymen bid up the price of gold by $35.70 last Tuesday, to $339 an ounce. At the same time, the rocketing dollar took a nosedive as traders fretted about the stability of the U.S. banking system and the strength of the economy...
...Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero in goggles to another classic American archetype: the perennial juvenile. Whole histories of the Lost Generation have revealed less; this is a novel that uses adventure to disguise a subtext of apprehension...
...HAVE TO ADMIRE the British: when they make a movie featuring a potentially cute, domesticated animal, they don't flinch at decapitating it and serving it up on a platter. A Private Function, touted as the resurrection of classic English comedy, is not for those who feel squeamish at the thought of a diarrhetic pig in their living room. Like a London bag lady who still bothers to curtsy, though, this film carries itself with a reserved sense of class, quite above movies like Bachelon Party or Porky's. Clearly the cardinal sin for British funnymen...
...struggles to reconcile his "sinful" impulses with the rigid doctrine he confronts in school. Becky (Blackman), an overweight outcast taunted by her classmates, stumebles through her formative years asking Cod why she has been singled out. The two meet as youngsters in elementary school, and what blossoms is a classic (if admittedly mushy) romance spanning more than a decade of Catholic schooling...