Word: redeemability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary changes that have been wrought in our world demand a new kind of man. The Christian man must learn to perceive the sanctity of the natural world, and thus redeem the aims of science; the Renaissance man must be broadened to breach the limitations of his individualism; the bourgeois man must be liberated from his false security of things and status...
...personality. But again, it is not a debauched degeneracy; nor does he use it in a spirit of scorn and repudiation. It is of life generally, a matter of humor, neither malicious nor perverted. It is included because this too is a part of life that he would redeem. Miller has a great and wonderfully positive enjoyment of the senses, but he is unlike his characters who try to use sex as a narcotic. He wants to redeem degraded sex, too, to encompass the dank and foul-smelling underworld of existence into his vision, and to draw forth whatever ecstasy...
...keep "on paying for being alive." But in all his straining leaps toward the highest goals, he is scarcely capable of getting his two left feet off the ground. Levin ends, as did Frank Alpine in The Assistant, chained to an onerous, self-imposed duty that will either redeem or destroy...
...sort of international monetary pawnbroker. When a nation finds its world business so bad that it does not have enough foreign currencies on hand to pay its international bills, it takes its own money to the Fund and exchanges it for the foreign currency it needs. But it must redeem its money within three to five years, and in the meantime is obliged to accept advice from I.M.F. experts on how to steer its economy out of trouble...
...absorbing as their own besetting fantasy. Fantasy is the reprisal of the powerless against a world they cannot change. The fantasy of the dying druggist is simply that he is not dying, even while he is. The fantasy of the judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher, but his fantasy is that his mother...