Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arriviste French nobleman about 1450. The artist, Jean Fouquet, was one of the 15th century's finest miniaturists, whose handling of celestial blues and golds as well as the soft pastels of spring landscape made him as much at home depicting heaven as earth. Fouquet's Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Faithful includes squadrons of foiled devils in flight and cloaked elders in prayer. Beyond them the luminous Seine flows past the small green trees, dusty walls and spires of the He de la Cite, where Notre Dame Cathedral, its facade laced in gold, makes medieval...
...sheer range of this book would render it unpalatable to most readers. Skinner deals with man and his culture from the beginning to the future, in a dazzling series of generalities designed for the general reader. This book is direct in line of descent from such grand visionary works at Rousseau's Second Discourse and Jacques Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life, Skinner, like Rousseau and Loeb, has attempted to transcend the role of the scientist and assume the mantle of the prophesy. And, more important, like Rousseau and Loeb, Skinner has been carried away by his cosmic dream...
...daughter, is dead, he utters the fivefold "Never" that some regard as the greatest single line in English drama. But in the film, he does not fumble at his throat and go on to say "Pray you, undo this button," thus depriving the act of tragic purgation and vertiginous descent from regal magnificence to the pitiable humanity of the commonplace...
...evidence presented at the trial was somewhat nebulous, the personalities involved certainly were not. The presiding judge, Webster Thayer, was a traditional Yankee with little sympathy for radicals. The Prosecutor, District Attorney Frederick G. Katzmann '96, was a cold, sharp, thin-lipped man of German descent who sought convictions with merciless persistence. And the original defense counsel, Fred Moore, was a leftist labor lawyer who sported long hair and often wore sandals to Court. Moore's appearance coupled with his constant objections to Katzmann's tactics, only strengthened Thayer's bias against the defendants...
Largely, Soledad Brother is the log of that descent. It catches Jacks in mid-flight in June of 1964. He was still in San Quentin then, but the first letter of the book reveals that already he was vastly different from the aimless small-time booster California had flushed into its prisons three years before. He writes to his mother...