Word: transcendentalize
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One of the major arguments used by President Nixon and the White House staff to justify the Watergate abuses has been that they were committed in the name of national security. Last week that rationale was discredited in a U.S. district court in Washington by one of Nixon's...
The very meaning of Yorunomado, "Night-window," speaks for the poem's sadness. It goes back to a concept from Blake's contemporary Kant of a windowpane between man and his world. There is always that doubt in man's ability to know either the objective thing-in-itself or...
Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment conveys a less overwhelming sense of urgency than Coils. These poems express a muted joy, but it is an unpeopled land. Merwin sees in things a clear reflection of the material world; he doesn't doubt man's ability to know the "thing-in-itself...
The headline announcing Walker's death was the first most of these people had heard of Walker since the fall of 1970, his senior year. Then he had been in the newspapers weekly as Captain and Most Valuable Player of what was called by many "The Best Damn Football Team...
This nearly overwhelming film is part epic allegory, part lighthearted Brechtian morality play and part three-ring circus. It is the saga of a young English coffee salesman (Malcolm McDowell), a description as precise and inadequate as saying that Gulliver's Travels concerns the misadventures of a ship'...