Word: henri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself insists that "there is no such thing as a Lonerganian"; by its very nature, he says, his method "destroys totalitarian ambitions." Insight is "a way of asking people to discover in themselves what they are." Yet the very openness of Lonergan's method, notes Utrecht University Theologian Henri Nouwen, makes his approach to self-realization a perilous personal adventure. The answer to intellectual blindness-or scotosis, as Lonergan calls it by its Greek name-is that each human being must lay himself open to the sheer terror of selfdiscovery...
...Henri Salaun of Boston was the last player to win this title two years in a row. Last weekend, he won a fourth consecutive veteran's championship...
...Paris, the defendants' attorney ridiculed the charge, saying that "it would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous." How so? (See THE WORLD...
...bull." So did Roger's attorney, Genevieve Aiche, 27, a pretty redhead. "Permit me to be skeptical," she said. "Eighteen assaults in one hour, even perpetrated by two men in relay, seem to me to be pure myth. It would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous, and they were Kings of France. After all, where is the woman who, after 18 assaults, would have the effrontery to complain...
French Philosopher Henri Bergson identified as laughable "something mechanical incrusted upon the living"-his somewhat pedantic phrase for the essential dualism of life. Civilization, said Bergson, unfolds so rapidly that its creator, man, is hard put to keep up. As a result, both culture and language are full of outdated forms. When man is abruptly made aware of them, he responds with chastened or chastening laughter. Why do yesterday's fashions invariably strike us as comic? Because, Bergson thought, they expose the ludicrousness of all fashion-an effort by a creature, born naked, to wear and animate his wardrobe...