Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Siskel (pursing his ever-thinning lips): "No, Roger, I'm afraid your aged mind has got it all wrong. I've always had a profound respect for Steinman's vision. Why, take part 5: it's devastating, just devastating. All obsessions with characterization are gone. Instead, we have 30 faceless figures, paragons of modern man, wandering around, not doing anything at all interesting, just waiting in line until their inevitable slaughter. It's a disutopia that would terrify even Kafka...
...things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...
...fasting to the material from which sandals were to be made. Casaroli's letter declared that the 1581 constitution is the "genuine expression" of Teresa's desires. The great majority of the nuns, however, maintain that the important matter is not such details but the saint's spiritual vision, and that this is best perpetuated by following the simpler rule she wrote in 1567, which was the basis for the experimental charter...
...displacement. Schwab calls "totally erroneous" the popular assumption that the deciphering of hieroglyphics represented the critical breakthrough, attributing the traditional "prejudice" surrounding Champollion's famous discovery to glamorizing myth. Instead, he explores at length the Occidental fascination with "the Hindu soul... something like a separate sex." Schwab's retrospective vision is itself a richly dense landscape with illuminating details such as Shelley's "pantheism" and Leibnitz's "Oriental lobe." Schwab invokes, with impressive authority, a wide ranging cast of intellectual and artistic figures from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Herder and Schopenhauer, in an imaginative attempt to reconstruct the vivid mood...
...foreward, Said compares the monumental scope of Schwab's project to Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge. Still, in its overwhelming depth and detail and cloquently subjective vision, it surpasses even Foucault's work, which it anticipated by 19 years...