Word: transcendentalism
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Bach, the protestant composer, is the worst. He transforms the repetitions of our lives so they shimmer and seem transfigured. But underneath it all is the beat. Bach is a fraud contributing to the rise of Capitalism in his proclamation of a transcendent life for businessman and worker. But are...
Yet if ever there were a transcendent Negro symbol, it was Martin Luther King. Bridging the void between black despair and white unconcern, he spoke so powerfully of and from the wretchedness of the Negro's condition that he became the moral guidon of civil rights not only to...
The Symbol. Roosevelt and Frankfurter first met in 1906 when they were both young lawyers in New York. The brilliant Frankfurter, who was twelve when he came to the U.S. from his native Austria, hit it off at once with the Hudson Valley aristocrat. Was young Felix merely charmed into...
In a disconnected house, on a disconnected morning, Anastasia comes suddenly upon a little girl (Karen Ascheim), the daughter of a married lover. There is a chilling scene. Two witches in a sun-lit room, mirror images through time. Anastasia confronts her small imp of the perverse, little Pearl in...
Ocean & Waves. Rubenstein, who has an M.A. from Jewish Theological Seminary and a doctorate in psychology of religion from Harvard, expressed his disbelief in Judaism's traditional deity in After Auschwitz, a collection of essays published in 1966. There he argued that Hitler's holocaust was deathly proof...