Word: transcendental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TAO TE CHING by Lao Tsu. Translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English. Unpaged. Knopf. $7.95. The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese collection of short verses supposedly written by an almost certainly mythical sage named Lao Han or Lao Tsu about 2,500 years ago. This title means...
ONE THING YOU'D least expect from any Soviet-bloc film industry, much less Poland's is an elegant celebration of magic. Wojciech Haas's The Saragossa Manuscript recounts the picaresque adventures of a captain of the Walloon Guards who crosses the Sierra Morena Mountains during the Spanish Inquisition. In...
Occasionally, columnists graduate from the simple absurdity of their self-important prose and enter the realm of transcendent absurdity. Such a columnist is Joseph Alsop, prophet of the Imminent American Victory in Vietnam, and a man who has devoted his mature life to the pursuit of chimerical creatures. Nothing in...
The Lutheran investigators say that Glock and Stark did not use correct standards for Christian orthodoxy, since belief in miracles, in life after death and a personal evil spirit is common to many religions. Instead, the Minneapolis researchers used a larger set of indices to define the "heart of Lutheran...
Some of the greatest art is ineloquent. It does not argue or get into expressive tangles. Most of La Tour's surviving work lies on this latitude of the imagination, sharing it with other purifiers of experience: Piero della Francesca, Poussin, Cézanne. Its fundamental condition, the mood...