Word: transcendentalism
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But this Dream at the Loeb goes far beyond technical proficiency or dramatic virtuosity. The play demands total ensemble work not just for the sake of the number of major roles it contains but for the revelation of its multiple meanings, and the American Repertory Theater (ART) provides a group...
The non-violent civil disobedience of Thoreau, Gandhi and King has a sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of...
Purists of the Olympics argue a bit romantically that the Games must be above politics, that regimes and secular squabbles come and go, that political issues are always transient, that the Olympic spirit is transcendent. That is what Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Panglossian founder of the modern Olympics intended...
KENNETH CLARK, educator: There are no transcendent leaders, but on a lower level there is Gloria Steinem, an articulate and thoughtful representative of the women's movement. Andy Young has stirred up controversy; if you're not getting into trouble, you're not breaking new ground or...
Drawing on such modern work as Rene Thom's mathematical catastrophe theory (to deal with discontinuous functions), as well as cybernetics and information theory, the authors almost produced a brilliant and illuminating work. Only their own assumptions held them back. It is difficult to be objective or fair when you...