Word: exaltedness
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Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a...
For many educators and policymakers, this exalted conception of education has paled in recent years. They have begun to question whether schools are really the instruments of equality they were thought to be -and to wonder whether there are elements in man that are beyond the reach of education. Other...
EACH YEAR, a few ambitious directors summon the spirit of the Greek amphitheater to the dark, boxy Ex. Occasionally and remarkably, the Ex production of Prometheus Bound, directed by Brian Powers according to an eclectic translation, flashes with this spirit of intense, exalted suffering. The drama is powerful only as...
Still, the blame for turning the viewer's idle mind into a devil's workshop of speculation is not entirely Greene's. The author of the original hit play, John-Michael Tebelak, collaborated with him on a screenplay that finds no equivalent in hippie jargon for the...
"I have learned anything is possible...that vision or concept will come through total risk, freedom, discipline. I will do it." When Sculptor Eva Hesse wrote this exalted sentiment three years ago, she was already dying; her larger works had to be executed by student friends at her direction; she...