Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kotlowitz means to recover the moments of profound transition, when the Jewish life of Eastern Europe began to be borne forward into the 20th century. Other writers-most notably Isaac Bashevis Singer-have handled this familiar theme with more versatility, more dramatic elan. Not all of the novel is totally alive, but Kotlowitz writes extraordinarily well at times. His act of conjuration is clear-eyed, without a trace of sentimentality...
...mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music, and a feeling of peace and reconciliation. They fell through a blue and roseate, magnificent heaven; then everything was suddenly still...
...this edition, an overfancy one gussied up with photographs (fog, snow, twigs, grass) and Chinese calligraphy, the Tao Te Ching has been translated more frequently than any book except the Bible. One reason is its poetic strength and simplicity, its way of knitting aphorisms into a form that sounds profound in any language. Just now though, the appeal is mainly philosophic, for the Tao Te Ching is a transcendent argument in favor of passivity. Its morality is the morality of "non-activity" (wu-wei)-"If nothing is done, then all will be well...
...nanny, travels to her locations, and she spends as much time as she can at her house in Norway. Built in Norwegian style with a veranda warmed by a fireplace, the house is a haven where she can cook her favorite Chinese dishes, read and muse on the profound culture shock that Hollywood represents...
...shown that he can make one nation out of two. It is true that in Disraeli's day the members of the other nation, the poor, were a majority while today they are not; the difference is vast. Nevertheless, a Disraeli could supply a profound corrective to conservative thought in America: a sense that everyone is in it together, that no one class or group can function properly unless all do. Until Richard Nixon does that, he remains only half a Disraeli. The historical portrait deserves to be completed...