Word: transcendentalism
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Postman's alternative to multiculturalism, like all the gods he suggests, has an almost religiously transcendent quality. "Diversity," as he defines it, encompasses the study of multiple languages (especially the English language, "the most multicultural language on Earth") in addition to comparative religion, sociology, anthropology and surprisingly, the study of...
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE light. At a time when much of the world still huddled under blackouts, the crystalline blaze of San Francisco after dark looked like the very kingdom of heaven. This spectacle greeting the emissaries of 51 countries in April 1945 was an inspiration, for their...
The intensity of Heaney's poetry stems largely from a Roman Catholic temperament that has been baffled by doubt. "My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension," he once told an interviewer. "But then there's the reality: there's no heaven...
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...