Word: transcendentalize
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Do Southern writers have longer memories than other people, or does it only seem that way? In her second novel, Sheila Bosworth, a New Orleans native, evokes her home state and its people with elegiac grace and gusts of humor. The combination goes down as smoothly as bourbon mixed with...
The realm of the miraculous sometimes lies just across the border from the fanatical or the tacky. Miracles may turn into roadside tourist traps, Fellini scenes. A revelation may go commercial and look like a snake farm beside the highway in North Florida. The transcendent moment falls from grace and...
TWO SOLUTIONS to this dilemma come to mind. One is, of course, to omit the whole thing. However, the idea of an opening prayer seems to me to be still valuable because it reminds us of transcendent values that the University and our education are meant to sustain.
The sexual radicals, on the other hand, are not simply looking for divine justifications to make whoopee. They represent the latest phase of a 200-year evolution of German and American Romantic theology, which sees God not as a transcendent Other, giving us texts or examples, but as the ground...
Case in point: the cast and staff of The Sun Also Sets, a soap opera of transcendent tackiness. Its reigning diva is Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), so insecure that she must periodically journey to New Jersey shopping malls so she can be fawned over by her fans.