Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legends and singing the old songs. I have been Homer's eyes. I suggested Mephistopheles. They say--with some salt to be sure--that I pinched Beatrice and Dante merely followed her flight to comfort. I am the Muse, the Artist, or if you will, the Human Venture. You may think my costume outlandish and my demeanor strange; but that is your fault, not mine. I have endured...
Freud discovered mythology and meaning in the dream, explained Hamlet and charted the mind by means of Oedipus. Jung wrote of archetypes, of the recurring myth in art, of the common symbols of man. There is a racial consciousness, a spiritus mundi--human history is community property among the family of artists. But the word has supplanted the Idea...
...walked around the Loop last week could be sure that no matter where he found a Lion he would hear earnest talk like that of Beechview's Cook. "One human being helping another -that's Lionism," he said, while Harriett nodded. "Service to humanity-that's Lionism. It makes you feel good...
...priest and a leading U.S. exponent of Zen, the main obstacle to the achievement of Zen's peace is an inability to purge themselves of the need for self-justification. This urge to prove oneself right "has always jiggled the Chinese sense of the ludicrous." The Chinese rated human-heartedness ahead of righteousness, felt that one could not be right without also being wrong. "At the roots of Chinese life there is a trust in the good-and-evil of one's own nature which is peculiarly foreign to those brought up with the chronic uneasy conscience...
Haniwa is an enigmatic art. The picturesque account given in the Nihon Shoki (chronicles of Japan compiled in the 8th century) credits Emperor Suinin (29 B.C.-A.D. 70) with substituting clay figures for the human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave...