Word: exaltedness
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"There is properly no history," wrote Emerson, "only biography." To reconstruct the New Mexican frontier of the 1860s, Horgan concentrates on Lamy. In the novel, the bishop experienced a constant inner joy: "He always awoke a young man ... One could breathe that [air] only on the bright edges of the...
Sweet Movie has no pretenses at plot, although it does make an attempt to chart the smarmy adventures of a certain Miss World 1984 (played by a lovely Canadian actress called Carole Laure). Future chroniclers of the humiliations inflicted on women in the cinema will find prime source material in...
Nevertheless, the look of Islamic art is overwhelmingly abstract and, to a Western eye, puzzlingly so. This is partly due to the circumstance that, illiterate in Arabic, a Westerner cannot decipher the inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the...
One day he rose in a meeting (in the Quaker meeting, a member is expected to speak only when he feels "moved"), and his speech was so exalted that the congregation declared he should speak in other places to spread the Quaker word. He did. But he continued to make...
Unfortunately, the Lamentations were interspersed with organ works by the little-known modern French composer Jehan Alain. Despite the confident playing of Daniel Hathaway, the mainstay of the first tenors. Alain's eclectic and grating style created an unpleasant contrast to Renaissance ethercality. They emphasized that the unique Renaissance mixture...