Word: redeeming
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...Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern Art museums bought his work; so did such collectors as Nelson Rockefeller and Peggy Guggenheim. But Congdon shrank from success. He traveled widely through the Mediterranean in search of new images, drank as a stimulus to creation. "Each painting," he wrote, "seemed to redeem me, as the life-ring saves the drowning man. I began to see in each painting a stay against the eventual death sentence...
...cost. He also denied some of the rumors rising in the wake of Curtis' decline. It is not true, said MacNeal, that Curtis could not meet November interest payments on its debentures (no payment was due then), or that it would not even be able to redeem the debentures, i.e., repay the loans when due (not until...
...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...