Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jesuit Teilhard wrote The Phenomenon of Man as a scientist; he was a top-ranking paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking Man. But as a Roman Catholic priest, he submitted to the prohibition of his church against publishing his writings or teaching his ideas. Until his death at...
Up Through the Ooze. Scientist Teilhard believes in evolution, not just as a matter of accepting Darwin; evolution for him is the mystical key to existence, the movement of the universe toward God. But God does not appear in Teilhard's book until the very end, and then under...
In the beginning is matter. Matter is "atomic" in that it exhibits plurality, to the microscope, the telescope or the naked eye-"in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead." Matter also exhibits unity...
As in home movies, the characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink...
The husband, a railroad brakeman (played by Painter Larry Rivers), comes home. He has invited a High Church bishop for tea. The bishop is like 20 years old, and he brings his mother. Not all the Beats are pleased. Ginsberg: "I'll go in the bathroom and watch television...