Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolfe's reach ultimately did exceed his grasp, he had the courage to dare the universe, to seek for the meaning of human life in human terms, and not be misled by the economic explanations or shallow cynicism of so many of his contemporaries. These letters make a fascinating Journey through the byways of a complex and at times over-whelming personality, "all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life...
...consciousness do not arise from comfort, from the present, from tranquility. The man who is frightened by himself, afraid to face his loneliness and his own self, flees to the consoling arms of tranquility and the tangibles of the present. But the seekers of the self--the self-conscious--grasp the future, appropriate their possibilities (and limitations), and form vital projects which become part of themselves...
...avant-garde among Harvard composers, plus some songs by Anton Webern, a very good name nowadays. Most of the student music has been or will be played at concerts of the Composers Laboratory, and the opportunity for two hearings is valuable as this music is often difficult to grasp at a single hearing. The Pieces for Prepared Piano by Christian Wolff, for example, seemed much more comprehensible than at the first performance; nonetheless their resources will have to be expanded, as the music is too static. The Three Songs, also by Wolff, were an evocative use of Soprano and Flute...
...involve a change in the law of the land. Such objects have never been considered charitable." The defeat of Shaw's crusade, added Sir Charles, "is not the fault of the law but of the testator, who failed almost for the first time in his life either to grasp the legal problem or to make up his mind what he wanted...
...damn it." Retorts Pastor Degenbruck: "What do you know of the soul? The Greeks called this thing which has given you your professional label: psyche or anemos. Anemos means breath or wind . . . They wanted to express that there was something in man which was both intangible and beyond the grasp of reason-like the wind...