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...ourselves (a far more pernicious temptation than any external devil affords)? Many religions counsel us to forgive those who trespass against us and to extend charity even to the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world; Buddhists actually argue that our enemies are our best friends because they challenge us to transcend ourselves. Yet still the debate between mercy and justice is as unending as the one between duty and love...
...kind of awkward exuberance in the way this story looks life straight in the eye and sweetly, soberly embraces its basic experiences and emotions. It is this unspoken moral strength, which is not to be confused with the vulgar, politicized moralism of our time, that permits it to transcend its gentilities of expression and its lack of structural grace. And grants this lovely cast, these intelligent and passionate filmmakers an unlikely triumph...
...kind of awkward exuberance in the way this story looks life straight in the eye and sweetly, soberly embraces its basic experiences and emotions. It is this unspoken moral strength, which is not to be confused with the vulgar, politicized moralism of our time, that permits it to transcend its gentilities of expression and its lack of structural grace. And grants this lovely cast, these intelligent and passionate filmmakers, the year's unlikeliest triumph...
...back to Giorgione's Tempesta.) The architecture of his backgrounds evokes a perfect antiquity, embedded in Nature but not disfigured by Time; and when he paints fragments, as in the great late landscapes with St. John on Patmos or St. Matthew writing his gospel, their forms -- prism, cylinder, cone -- transcend their ruined state by turning into a sort of ideal geometry...
...show, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, provides no answers. It does, however, remind us that Harvard's museums are more than a place to temporarily dispose of loved ones when Parent's Weekend begins to pall. The exhibit raises a labyrinth of confounding problems that transcend the hothouse world of museums to intrude on our faith in the definition of American culture...