Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reiser's book is lucid, ambitious, profound. It was inspired by science's discovery of more things in heaven & earth than were dreamt of in former philosophies. "The time is ripe for a new philosophy," says Philosopher Reiser, and he hopes its main characteristics will be 1) a non-Aristotelian logic, 2) a theory of emergent evolution...
Stages on Life's Way is not only one of Kierkegaard's best books* but luckily his most interesting to ordinary, unmystical readers. And because his musings on the erotic are so lucid, irreligious mankind will respect this essentially religious thinker. Judges Translator Lowrie, "The Stages is clearly a work of genius...
About his own work, Sculptor Epstein waxes both lyrical and lucid. Wrote he, of his famous bulb-bellied statue Genesis: "How a figure like this contrasts with our coquetries and fanciful erotic nudes of modern sculpture! At one blow, whole generations of sculptors and sculpture are shattered and sent flying into the limbo of triviality, and my Genesis, with her fruitful womb, confronts our enfeebled generation. Within her man takes on new hope for the future. The generous earth gives herself up to us, meets our masculine needs, and says, 'Rejoice, I am Fruitfulness, I am Plenitude...
...great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice." Thus quipped vice man Samuel Johnson in one of his more lucid moments. According to Dr. Johnson's specifications, the U. T., as a public amusement, has saved the souls of countless Harvard men who might otherwise have whiled away long, useless hours of vice in Scollay Square, the Brookline Country Club, or Widener...
...used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love when the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." Last week, when Painter Dali and his wife debarked at Jersey City, he announced that he was "a reformed and much more conservative...