Word: transcendentalism
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Nonetheless, many men seem more aware of what constitutes a "hostile environment" in the workplace. "Before Anita Hill testified, I thought sexual harassment was if you touched someone," says Scott Leeds, 24, a C.P.A. in Manhattan. "Now I find myself watching what I say around women." Manhattan financial consultant Peter...
It was Kafka who invented the castle as literature -- the Prague castle of his novel being the symbolic seat of mysterious, anonymous power, an effect the Communists had a genius for. That Havel came to preside over the castle seemed the Czechoslovaks' graceful, transcendent leap out of the dark, a...
The dancers try again, but their taskmaster is notoriously difficult to please. Cigarette dangling from his hand and his Tiny Tim-style ringlets bouncing on his shoulders, he strides to the middle of the floor to show them how the steps should be done. Morris, 35, is tall and bulky...
The Salieri of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, from which the film was adapted, sees the transcendent in Mozart's music, and, inevitably, the immanent in his own. And his own barrenness torments him. He despairs that he can only hear, and not create, the absolute music that flows from...
To those who will protest that a comparison between a low-budget student production and a high-powered professional recording is invidious, I can only respond that budget and musical talent place no limitation on imaginative and thoughtful interpretation. The difference between the two productions is that Eliot Gardiner, like...