Word: contemplatione
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This exceptionally fine Hungarian film about death and renewal is made with a sort of serene melancholy, a rich understanding of the tone and textures of mortality. It is a quiet movie, of short focus but great perspective in its untroubled contemplation of the measure of loss.
McNamara has incorporated strains of Eastern mystical traditions into two ecumenical contemplative centers he has built, one near Sedona, Ariz., and a newer one in Nova Scotia. His visitors, who stay anywhere from a few days to a year, are Episcopal ministers, Catholic priests, Jews and even atheists. Daily meditation...
But the difference between Matisse's contemplation of his own works and the arid feedback one gets in so much art today is enormous. It is a matter of sensual wholeness. The blue of the Dance invades the painted room, drenching its space in an oceanic full ness of...
Fuller chose two years of silence, study and contemplation instead. "From his silence," says Kenner, "he emerged talking of everything at once, and was barely intelligible." His first book, Time-lock, a chain reaction of nascent Fullerese, was "like a cloud of gas just condensing into a galaxy."
The surge has come from many more sources than the space program. Though the Stanley Kubrick-Arthur C. Clarke spectacle 2001 was packing in aficionados at movie theaters months before Apollo 8, the film gained a prophetic impact after man reached the moon. Even among the scientific community, such astonishing...