Word: transcendental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The House is less of a gentlemen's club than the Senate. It is more like, say, a parliamentary version of Stillman's Gym. But over two centuries it has evolved its own internal rhythms and intricate habits of doing business. Most of its work, for example, is...
"Crocker," Kojak would say, musing over the body of a just dispatched crook, "...don't worry. It happens." For Long John and Bentley, facing generals and then orals, facing the real prospect of unemployment in June, that was transcendent wisdom. It happens. No use worrying. The simple serene Greek wisdom...
Woman of the Year. Early in the movie, Katharine Hepburn raises her skirt above her knee and shows her long, long leg, enough to drive sane men crazy. Her beauty hit the transcendent point in this movie. Before she had been coltish and jagged, but with Women of the Year...
If this production is short on transcendent acting, it is for once also totally free of atrocious elocution--even in the bit parts, where one tends to find vocal ineptitude. I cannot fail to mention Tom McDermott's lovable portrayal of the tired old Adam, a role that some evidence...
Roger Shinn, Reinhold Niebuhr professor of social ethics at New York City's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "religious wars tend to be extra furious. When people fight over territory for economic advantage, they reach the point where the battle isn't worth the cost and so compromise...