Word: transcendency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not judge what has happened in the last seven years. It merely tells some stories from those times. Unfortunately, the drug culture's development, though probably inevitable, does not make a happy story. But even in the harsh light of 1971, it seems good that the attempt to transcend the world as it was in the sixties was made. One character says of the early days of the drug revolution, "There was no word-defining then, nothing second-hand...
...that one man is distinct from others, and to "describe" visually, clinically. He creates a form with the single principle of reiterating artistically these separations, in order to restore the legitimacy of the here and now, to eliminate the "depth" consciousness of a metaphysical void and the need to transcend it, to find happiness by other means than spiritual self-aggrandizement, and to destroy the historicizing consciousness that piles up layers of immobilizing interpretations, ambiguities, expectations, and despairs that inhibit what Cioran calls "the temptation to exist...
...Richard Nixon like Julius Caesar? According to Author Theodore H. White (The Making of The President), Nixon faces the same temptation to transcend the law of the land. Before a rehearsal of his first play, Caesar at the Rubicon, at Princeton University's McCarter Theater, owlish politicophile White, 55, noted that Caesar's problems "were reborn with the American Constitution. We were the first republic under the law since Rome." Within five years after crossing the Rubicon, said White, "Caesar had become dictator and god, master of the world. He had placed himself outside...
...moral. How provocative must the Thirty Years War have sounded to allegory-minded capitalists trying to pull their finances out of a contemporary historical version and into a filmed one! What is most enjoyable about The Last Valley is the way it upsets one's expectations and tries to transcend its genre. What is most ironic is its obvious linkage with various past movie eras...
...hysteria over the word "ecology" has submerged most real issues. Ecology is an idea of balance and not a political issue. Politics never seem to transcend the scale of banner-waving. "Ecology" does not comfortably fit a banner. Banners that are waved too hard tend to flutter at last in tatters...