Word: transcendentalized
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The Holy Grail-which Sir Lancelot glimpsed for one transcendent instant, which the pure knight, Sir Galahad, and simple Sir Percival sought and found-may now be reposing in the strong room of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth, Wales. It will soon be turned over to a vivacious blonde...
Before Cynthia is through with Tom, he realizes that she is a literary climber who plans to use the prone bodies of her name-brand intellectual lovers as social steppingstones. By that time, Vera has joined the flophouse choir of ministering angels, and Tom, in an uncharacteristically humble mood, is...
Kirk is no man to deny that the U.S. university has plenty of tormentors from the right, both in and out of Congress. But "whatever constriction of academic freedom may have come to pass in recent years because of timidity about expressing political opinions, this loss is very small in...
Finally, towering over a host of lesser archetypes, is the transcendent Self. This embodies elements from both conscious and unconscious, from all the archetypes, good and evil. It is a symbol of oneness such as is found in many religions, e.g., the Hindu atman.
Nevertheless, right down to their final act of betrayal, the moviemakers are sensitively loyal to most of Greene's transcendent meanings, and catch them, like mysteriously luminous fish, in a well-spread net of images. The result is something less than Greene's brilliant attempt to plumb the...