Word: transcendentalism
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Now, at the beginning of the '80s, Americans may be on the point of another departure. The '80s may witness, for example, a long-overdue transition from an emphasis on feeling-"If it feels good, do it!"-to a keener focus on thought; feelings, at least the transcendent...
Why? He claims to have poisoned Mozart years before. Beethoven reported this unsubstantiated charge in an entry of his conversation book of 1824. More pertinently, Salieri confesses to the envy that breeds malice when a mediocre talent meets a transcendent genius. In editing and reshaping his own text for Broadway...
Despite a trio of transcendent performances and occasional moments of mercurial passion, A Lesson from Aloes is curiously stillborn. Fugard relies far too relentlessly on talk, the inspissated venom of the impotent. It is as if his cha acters were constantly grappling fate at the tonsils, rather than grabbing it...
Childbirth remains one of the most grotesque and transcendent of all natural functions, matched perhaps only by its necessary preliminary. Everything about the process is astonishing. Especially the baby. Science Writer K.C. Cole, despite her own and her husband's most diligent efforts to know exactly what was happening...
IN MOST INSTANCES, though, King arrives at the not-so-surprising conclusion that few authors can untangle themselves from the bewildering signals of a misunderstood past. Psychoanalysis occasionally helps individual patients but offers small counsel to an emotionally troubled culture. King concludes, rightly, that even Faulkner's "transcendent" achievement in...