Word: transcendental
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While funds have been raised privately for a memorial to the late President only three blocks away (TIME, Dec. 24, 1965), many citizens were shocked at the tawdry boosterism of the city-approved legend. The juxtaposition of "historical trivia with a happening of transcendent significance," observed the Dallas Times-Herald...
Teach-in for God. Secularization, science, urbanization?all have made it comparatively easy for the modern man to ask where God is, and hard for the man of faith to give a convincing answer, even to himself. It is precisely to this problem?how do men talk of God in...
Socialization has immunized man against the wonder and mystery of existence, argues Oxford Theologian Ian Ramsey. "We are now sheltered from all the great crises of life. Birth is a kind of discontinuity between the prenatal and post-natal clinics, while death just takes somebody out of the community, possibly...
Mystic Light. Mephistopheles, originally a series of lectures delivered to the Eranos circle of scholars and artists influenced by Psychologist C. G. Jung, is typical of Eliade's work: sweeping in scope, it minutely traces the origin and development of several spiritual concepts through a variety of cultures. One...
Instead, the value of the film rests in Antonioni's use of the camera and the cutting room to create a series of extremely subtle impressions. Antonioni selects his images with the precision of an electronic microscope and puts them together with almost transcendent sensitivity to force his audience to...