Word: metaphysicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human race survives," says Laing, in gloomy accents, "future men will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a veritable Age of Darkness." Fortunately, his importance to psychiatry does not rest on the accuracy of his abysmally pessimistic social prophecies. But the physician-metaphysician has assured himself of a place in intellectual history with his chilling thesis: that insanity may be no more than a reflection of insane society...
Lapidary Care. As for plot, Red Beard could be Dr. Gillespie, and the intern Dr. Kildare: the story is that simple. But where his hero is a physician, Kurosawa is a metaphysician. Going beneath the bathos, he explores his characters' psychology until their frailties and strengths become a sum of humanity itself. Despite his pretensions, the young doctor is as flawed-and believable-as his patients. If Red Beard himself is a heroic figure, he is nonetheless cast in a decidedly human mold: gruff and sometimes violent-as when he forcibly takes the girl from her captors-he keeps...
...theories would be to make advertising more effective. Certainly a major achievement of pop-psych is the art known as "consumer motivation," whose leading exponent, Ernest Dichter, keeps pouring out fresh insights in a monthly newsletter. Dichter perceives qualities in objects and situations that nobody, except possibly a mad metaphysician, has seen before. He proclaims that lamb is less popular than beef because it is associated with "gentle innocence"; that rice is a favorite "feminine food" because in the cooking "it expands and swells." Dichter also asserts that gloves are sexy because taking them off to shake hands...
...difficult not to be intrigued by what is certainly one of the longest, most difficult and most astonishing critical studies ever written about one writer by another. Whole pages of Saint Genet could have been cut. Line after line is unintelligible to anyone but a skilled metaphysician. What remains is an appalling guidebook to a nether world...
Roethke is a nature poet as well as a metaphysician, and the best of his poems celebrate the spiritual experience in a natural metaphor, as a sort of vegetation mystery. Cuttings is characteristic: This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks, Cut stems struggling to put down feet, What saint strained so much, Rose on such lopped limbs to a new life? I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small waters seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last...