Word: illuminatione
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Yet the play-however seriously meant or in places skillfully contrived-comes off largely a parlor game. The characters get to know themselves better than the audience knows the characters; the play means too much to mean-as a felt experience-much of anything at all. The meaning is not...
"I knew the virtues of democracy when I came," he says. "But the opportunity-that was the real illumination." He saved $500 in three months, opened a little book business of his own. It prospered. He got married, became the father of a baby son. But the FBI never stopped...
With this English-made historical melodrama, the Brattle presents two French shorts. The first, called Zanzabelle, is the work of an old French puppeteer, who has a remarkable ability to place human faces on his dolls and an equally wonderful talent for amusing situation. The other short, Images Medievales, reproduces...
Tablets of Eternity. The historian's function, under this definition, is to do more than study facts for their own sake, for "universal history is a continuous development; it is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul." A slavish objectivity subverts the purpose of...
Martin Merriedew, the hero of Mary Borden's*latest novel, You, the Jury, was a singular child. He had some inner illumination that drew people's attention to him. He spoke sometimes to his playmates about God; and sometimes he broke off play and left them, saying, "I...