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Nerac is a brilliant young French doctor who finds the high-pressure ratrace of his residency in a large Paris hospital ideal. His brilliant technique, icy professional objectivity, and need for females only to satisfy impeding primal urges mark him as a man determined to rise...
...state Lorca would have all return to is the condition that the Negroes and his gypsies share, that unabashed freedom of the instincts, the alignments with the primal emotions of all whose spirits are outside civilized society. To Lorca, these wooden people of the city are not merely estranged from a natural environment which they can reacquire by a turn in the park; the entirely of the mass of their mechanical civilization stands between them and the broken strands of their roots in Nature. They cannot operate naturally or seek the pronouncements of Nature, if they allow the city...
...collection of prints now at the Fogg Museum, Munch betrays little social consciousness. He dwells instead in the primal world of individual fantasy and frustration which give his art universal appeal. The exhibit shows that the morbid Munch was at his sardonic best between 1894 and 1900, when he created such masterpieces as The Cry and The Kiss. Later, his subject matter was more commonplace and his skill at dramatizing his ideas declined correspondingly. Although Munch might be called, after Van Gogh, the father of Expressionism, some of his prints have an affinity in style with Gaughin's flat...
...Englishman with gentle eyes stood in silent prayer. The place was Sacro Speco, where, tradition says, St. Benedict spent years as an anchorite. The Englishman was Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and (aloofly in the third person) he now describes what he felt there three years ago: "Here was the primal germ of Western Christendom; and, as the pilgrim read . . . the names of all the lands, stretching away to the ends of the Earth, that had been evangelized by a spiritual impetus issuing from this hallowed spot, he prayed that the spirit which had once created a Western Christian Civilization...
...Father, whose creative Will Asked Being for us all, Confirm it that Thy Primal Love May weave in us the freedom of The actually deficient on The justly actual...