Word: transcendentalized
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Updike is an American moralist, analyzing the limits of living in terms of the social thwarting of human potential and dreams. Rabbit was a religious hero in '59; his faith was ruthlessly transcendent. Rabbit's talks with Reverend Eccles drew out his "theology." Eccles talked of Hell "as separation from...
The three gods of their bizarre theology represent "three basic patterns of human reality." One of them is Jehovah, a "wrathful God of vengeance and retribution," who demands "discipline, courage and ruthlessness" from his followers. The second is Lucifer, wrongly confused with Satan, they say. He is the "Light-Bearer...
No one seen in the film is capable of following an action or thought to its end. Granted-Forman is dealing with limited people. But he doesn't show us why he chose them. Odets and Miller at their best also dealt with "the ordinary," but at those points of...
It must begin at dawn before the eyes can know it, there is color-there is such slight quiet color that it comes all from one-the differences all our own, before morning before the sun can face everything directly, washing its color to origin-they are strong weighted colors...
The major purpose of the Process is to serve God by helping people to save themselves from the conflicts society imposes on them-to help people "rise above the conflicts within them." In helping people to reach this transcendent state, Processeans try to accept people for what they are, to...