Word: transcendental
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As a young man Stalin had been snubbed by the Russian intellectual elite. His revenge was to grind their faces in the ice of miracle, mystery and authority, to make culture into a form of ventriloquism from on high. Socialist Realism was a religious art celebrating the transcendent power of...
Margaret Mead argued that "war is only an invention." She refused to regard it as an inevitable part of human baggage, the curse of the reptilian brain. John Keegan is agnostic in the nature-nurture argument. "All we need to accept," he writes in A History of Warfare (Knopf; 432...
That leaders of these sworn enemies should have made such a leap of faith into the unknown proves that history, of which the Holy Land has a surfeit, at long last is losing its death grip on them. For nearly 100 years, Jews and Arabs have been like Jacob and...
If Barkley's burden, then, is that he cannot be other than himself ("That's Charles just being Charles" is the rueful and affectionate comment of those around him), Jordan's is that he cannot be other than immortal. Barkley reminds us again and again that he is not sufficiently...
Everyone knows the story of Cinderella--how the good and beautiful Cinderella, a slave to her evil and ugly stepsisters, is unexpectedly visited by a transcendent fairy godmother who transforms her rags into a beautiful ball gown, a pumpkin into a carriage and mice into horses. With these new alterations...