Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth, then in all likelihood they produced life on other planets. Dr. Calvin accepts the reasoning of modern astronomers that in the visible universe there are probably 100 million other planets with well-organized life on them. Such life may range all the way from "precellular" micro-organisms to sentient beings who speak a language. Since the life of man on earth occupies only the small span of 1,000,000 years out of the accepted time span of 5 billion years for the universe as a whole, it seems obvious to Dr. Calvin that on other planets life...
...know only when you know all the aspects of her beauty. She has high spirits or low, she is pale or red, grey or pink, cold or warm, fresh or wan, according to the weather or the hour . . . The place seems to personify itself, to become human and sentient and conscious of your affection. You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it; and finally a soft sense of possession grows up and your visit becomes a perpetual love-affair...
...chance may deprive us of everything-except the power to say 'I.' It is that which has to be offered up to God, that is to say, destroyed." In common with other mystics, Simone Weil skirts the dilemma of how a totally effaced self can remain sentient enough to experience the ineffable joy of its oneness with God, in the rare event that it should be achieved. Simone Weil's own most telling religious experience: "a presence more personal, more certain, more real, than that of a human being, though inaccessible to the senses and imagination...
Miss Stapleton does an excellent job of conveying the transition back to a sentient life; she is alternately wild and spent, never quite understanding the world around her. The object of her renewed affections is played by Eli Wallach, who is adequate in his clownish impersonation of the Marlon Brando-type lover...