Word: ded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions of life in an decipherable moment of ineffable unity. And so, rowing Endgame on top of Presidential Power, and ling the ineluctable pull of some Taoist-Maoist dooms against my Captain Shotover-Thomist faith, I ded for Sanders to hear the Stravinsky Mass, and oral works by Britten and Dello Joio in honor of the atron saint of music...
...doctrines now being questioned are embed ded in Western man's heritage and, in the manner in which they help interpret sin and guilt, goodness and redemption, they have be come part of his psychic life. They have meaning, often unconscious, for a great majority of humanity - and profound relevance even in 20th century life...
Faustian Galaxy. To eliminate this apparent flaw in an otherwise symmetrical universe, Stannard suggests that there is another universe "embed ded in the same space-time framework" as man's-only its time runs backward. Such a "Faustian"* universe, he says, would be unobservable by earthmen because Faustian matter would not in teract with normal matter; it would separate out into planets, solar systems and galaxies...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
...back home," he 'lowed. "Abigail will sit beside me feeding me grapes. Susie will be rubbing olive oil over my beautiful muscles. Cecilia will be shining my shoes, and there'll be Peaches, too. I don't know what she'll do. . . ." The listeners nod ded happily, realizing full well that this was a king's prerogative, especially a king from America...