Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I am offended by McGuire's statements not because I disagree with him politically but because he essentially questions the right of more than 50 percent of Harvard to be educated at this University. I wish to make a very important distinction between my disagreeing with someone politically and my...
In Harlot's Ghost, published in 1991, Mailer embarked upon a sort of Moby Dick of the Central Intelligence Agency, with a volume that ran to more than 1,300 pages. A second installment is in progress. Meantime, the industrious Mailer offers Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House...
Student-written theater has all the advantages and disadvantages of unbridled freedom. Unfettered by endless revision and polishing, or years of play-writing experience and performance before live audiences, new student-written plays are often messy, but sometimes transcendent in their rawness. Nobody's You, a new play by Margaret...
Perhaps it is this hint of the ideal that accounts for Vanya's continuing attraction. Even if nothing much happens onstage, everything is happening on that other, imagined stage-a world of fulfilled passions, where scholarship leads to wisdom, industry to affluence, sexual desire to spiritual communion. Chekhov's impulse...
On its face, that seems fine. If we must have lobbyists, they might as well represent regular people, not just oil barons. The trouble is that regular people, like oil barons, are usually asking for money, whether in the form of crop subsidies for farmers, tax breaks for shopkeepers, Medicare...