Word: transcendentalism
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In some ways it is a fissure that runs through much black art of this century. One school of representation has focused on man as the subject of large, impersonal forces -- racism, sexism, poverty. The other has dwelt on a transcendent self in which fulfillment is achieved despite these forces...
If the drama is to succeed, the passion must not merely engage the reader intellectually; it must arouse him. For this heterosexual male, who has imagined himself to be the unconventional heroine Moll Flanders and that transcendent bird Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the failure is total. Such a statement will surely...
In 1886, on the occasion of Harvard's 250th anniversary, Charles William Eliot, the University's greatest president, painted an optimistic picture of its future. "Universities are among the most permanent of human institutions," Eliot said. "They outlast particular forms of government, and even the legal and industrial institutions in...
The enterprise of writing is a perilous one. How does one avoid Naomi Wolf-type indulgent autobiographical references while infusing one's work with poignant yet transcendent moments?
In case "Thelma and Louise" wasn't enough to do it, this movie will once again question how anyone can proclaim Julia Roberts the actress of her generation with Geena Davis for transcendent beauty in this movie, the intangible radiance that distinguishes "stars" from run-of-the mill actresses.