Word: transcendency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, been the attempt to separate literary criticism from belief. "A man may be a great poet and still be little better than an idiot in many of his personal attitudes," Frye is convinced. On one level, the mythological structures Frye sees as providing the framework for poetry transcend any question of belief. More generally, he maintains that "when belief is a matter of uncritical acceptance of the unprovable, the less we believe the better...
...lyrics are mostly in Portuguese, but his songs, with their optimism and off-the-cuff spirit, transcend language barriers. There is an only-just-bounded energy to this music, a warmth that is a welcome change from dark northern days. Close your eyes and you could almost be 5000 miles away...
...basic notion about the existence of a spiritual reality that suffused all matter (man and animals included) and had evolved into a "noosphere"-his term for a layer of human awareness that enveloped the earth like some psychic biosphere. As this envelopment progressed, Teilhard believed, man would eventually transcend his individualism and converge at the "Omega Point" with the Omega -God. Instead of God's creation at the beginning of time, Teilhard emphasized instead his ongoing and future creative activity. To orthodox critics, this vision destroyed the distinction between man and nature, and veered perilously close to pantheism...
...taken that way. Both Sporting News and Daedalus can be purveyors of valuable information--although Sporting News is so in a much less pretentious manner--when these publications offer their contributors the time and space to provide something new or original. "American Civilization: New Perspectives" does not transcend those limitations...
...Carter's program for the United States remains, fundamentally, a plan devised in the tradition of the Democratic party: it offers a compassionate, risk-taking federal government that recognizes what joblessness means to a human being. It offers a government that could transcend the cozy goal of preserving international "stability"--which often means active support of military or oligarchic regimes in struggling nations--and insist on integrating human rights considerations into foreign policy. And it offers a sensitivity to the rights of minorities, to the consequences of an unfair--or, as Carter says, "disgraceful"--tax structure, and to the suicidal...