Word: contem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living dead man, an intellectual zombie. What he had experienced was a slowing down, a clearing away of the garbage that made it possible to sit for hours with a single thought to play with a thought, to draw it out, and enjoy it like a poem, to contem- plate its fullness, to exhaust it, and then move on to the next...
...whole life becomes permeated by organic chemistry. You lose your sense of humour. You adjust to a cultural vacuum. You dream about organic compounds. You hallucinate laboratories, even blackout. And you save your mind by contem-plating the nondescript charisma of your friends the poisons...
Survival Factor. The best but not necessarily the most truthful. "Throughout his life," Blake warns, "Benjamin Disraeli was addicted to romance and care less about facts." He was invariably the hero of his own self-created myth, and because he could write all his contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film...
Discernment Situations. The contem porary world appears so biased against metaphysics that any attempt to find philosophical equivalents for God may well be doomed to failure. "God," says Jerry Handspicker of the World Council of Churches, "has suffered from too many attempts to define the indefinable." Leaving unanswered the question of what to say God is, some theologians are instead concentrating on an exploration of the ultimate and unconditional in modern life. Their basic point is that while modern men have rejected God as a solution to life, they cannot evade a questioning anxiety about its meaning. The apparent eclipse...
...hairy idea about art." He was a bug on things historical, vaguely Arthurian, and even named his daughter Yseult. One day, he saw a photographic essay on sky diving. The imagery of swooping man below the billowing, brightly colored gores of a parachute combined his interest in the contem porary heroic figure with a desire for strong formal arrangement...