Word: transcendentalism
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“He wasn’t just a moral philosopher, but a person of transcendent goodness, so good that he made you feel it was a privilege to be a contemporary of his,” said Thomas Nagel, university professor at New York University.
On something heartfelt yet slightly creepy we’d like to say to the most famous member of the Class of 2003: You are like rain to a parched desert, sunshine in a gray land, hope where none had ever existed before. You are transcendent, a perfect thing amid...
And Pollock? He was America's first painter--pop star, the drunken angel of an emerging hipster culture in search of new routes to those old American goals, the instinctive and the transcendent. Though the role unnerved him, it was secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean...
With control of J's heavily urban roster and RCA's diverse slate--which includes the Dave Matthews Band, Christina Aguilera, the Strokes and Foo Fighters--Davis is again the most high-profile executive in the business. Still, he insists, "my job now is the same as ever. That is...
Ignorance of Iraqi Baath motivations is pervasive, even among political and media elites. David Brooks of The Weekly Standard recently wrote, “Very little attention has been paid to what Saddam wants and what Saddam believes.” Saddam was tutored in the Baath party ideology by...