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...mystical experience," I think the TMers, like the revolutionaries you recently featured, are middle-class kids who are having difficulty with the real world. Upon discovering in the '60s that the ghetto and the war would not be cleaned up at their will, the TMers fled into "cosmic consciousness," and the revolutionaries threw temper tantrums...
...cement will join a world of plastic to a world of Gothic stone? These are the persistent questions of J.F. Powers (Morte D'Urban), with Flannery O'Connor the finest American writer on Catholic themes. Powers' new group of short stories provides no answer, only a cosmic sigh...
...Faculty. But James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and the chairman of the core curriculum task force, possibly the key group, said he expects his committee's work to have a broader, more philosophical mandate than the other task forces. "We won't have any necessarily more cosmic recommendations than others," Wilson insists. "But there is hardly a major proposal that would not have to be passed by the Faculty...
...inward toward its round core. This system of forms crops up in painting after painting from Kupka's maturity, like the large and magisterial Around a Point, 1925 (see color page). It carried for him a weight of symbolic associations that had to do with growth, movement and cosmic energy...
...exhibited in Paris. Some of his big abstracts from the '20s, like Around a Point, must be reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...