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...Timeless Image. People already go by the thousands to another Corbu master piece: the Chapel of Ronchamp, which crowns one of the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It is a place for pilgrimage, a looming form that commands the entire countryside from horizon to horizon. Ronchamp is architecture as pure image, and few images more powerful or more timeless have ever been placed before the eye. It is strange that a man who has shown so few signs of religious feeling should have produced so awesome a place of worship. But this is no odder than the fact that...
...statement of such is contrary to precise that spirit of Camus' that this illustrates so well. In writings, there is no split the man as philosopher as political being: the values art inform the values of his and of his life. In perhaps modern thinker are the timely the timeless fused so tightly. reading of, for example, The will show, metaphysical and rebellion are one; Camus artist, the commentator...
...single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless moment when the bored geriatric lover gets out of the bored hoyden's bed and hops up and down to get his circulation going. And like all humorists, she thrives on embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When one of her boys came home with...
...seemed to me that what he was describing--committee maneuvers, the politics of hierarchy, and "court politics"--are traditional means by which men have always arrived at decisions. His use of the phrase "court politics" to describe Lindemann's alliance with his powerful patron, Churchill, indicates how timeless and universal such politicking is. And, after the war and a decade of precarious coexistence, I don't think that any of Snow's listeners were surprised to hear that there are important decisions made in our society that are not subject to popular approval...
What the church needs, Griffith announced in his first sermon, is a "return to orthodoxy." And what he intends to preach is "sin and redemption . . . historic gospel, timeless, Bible-centered messages which the church and only the church is capable of speaking...