Word: gloriousness
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...heroism in the tribal context: a fierce, virtuous assertion of the group. That is why ethnic grievance -- a rising force in so much of the world -- is so dangerous. When the subjective goes tribal, the self-indulgence of one man or woman comes frighteningly alive, collective, suddenly legitimized, glorious even. What would be individual shame now blossoms into shamelessness. The weak and vicious transfer their worst defects to the larger cause (Greater Serbia, perhaps). Thus does self-pity become selfless and, by this magic, righteous. And thus a brute killer portrays himself as a victim, who is therefore infinitely justified...
...debut, opens with Stevenson sitting near a naked male lover, calmly sketching -- and discoursing on the merits of -- his thighs and butt. She plays a Venetian Renaissance painter with a gift for epic scale who is commissioned, despite her gender, to commemorate the city's most glorious naval victory. The city fathers want patriotic myth. She insists on painting the horrors of battle, the pathos of the defeated and the dehumanization of the victorious, and sees this as woman's contribution to culture. "No man," she remarks, "honestly hates murder...
GLENN GOULD WAS A GLORIOUS ECCENtric: a concert dropout; a reclusive, self- promoting ascetic; a pianist of Horowitzian technique who, with curious exceptions like Bizet and Sibelius, usually shunned the Romantics. Sony Classical's magnificent GLENN GOULD EDITION, to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre (much of it previously unreleased). His Haydn is superb; his Mozart and Beethoven range from riveting to risible; his moderns dazzle. Above all, sensibility and omnipotent fingers made him a peerless contrapuntalist, who could with uncanny rhythmic acuity articulate multiple lines and transmute complex musical thought, especially Bach's, into pure...
...when the archaeologist in charge is Francis Coppola, the object is not literal reconstruction but further improvement. If only nature got as many second chances as movie directors. This trilogy has a novelistic density, a rueful, unhurried lyricism and a depth that, singly, the films could not achieve. Altogether glorious...
...certainly my impression...that they were going into glorious detail over something that seemed to be off-base," Scott said. "As I read it, it just seemed that it was unnecessary that they would need to see all the things they would [want...