Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other leads below the elementary school syntax and semantic void which Jonesco's characters utter to the recognition that what makes sense in and of this play is the tone of voice, namely boredom. Not only do the player's voices range systematically from torpid boredom to orgiastic boredom; their words do, too. Nearly every sentence is, by itself, a cliche. Juxtaposed, the frightening novelty of the message of cliches suggests that novel messages are no more than cliches, artfully rearranged. Thus the characters--they too are not individuals, but cliches--break down their own messages and shout the ultimate...
...Void Was Lit Up." For at least 3,000 years, primitive tribes have had visionary orgies at feasts of certain sacred plants, often mushrooms. The use of the peyote cactus, from which mescaline is derived, is a regular part of the Communion services of the Native American Church, composed of 200,000 U.S. Indians. Novelist Aldous Huxley wrote, in The Doors of Perception, that mescaline produced in him an effect that seemed like seeing the beatific vision. Psychologist Timothy Leary, who was dropped from the Harvard faculty last spring after receiving strong criticism for his freewheeling research...
...paradise. Most instant mystics feel that they have been "reborn," and have suddenly been given the key to existence, although their intuition usually appears in the form of an incommunicable platitude, such as "oneness is all." California Prison Psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, for example, imagined himself in a black void in which "God was walking on me and I cried for joy. My own voice seemed to speak of his coming, but I didn't believe it. Suddenly and unexpectedly the zenith of the void was lit up with the blinding presence of the One. How did I know...
...York Review of Books has begun to publish bi-weekly: it is one of the most fantastic mixtures of genius and literary offal to descend on the book world in a decade. The genius of the Review is partly its conception--it could grow to fill the void The New Republic left in the 1930's when it slipped from its role of providing focus and direction in exploring liberal ideas. Since that time, American thinkers have had no publication literary or political which could serve as a forum, asking agreement only on a few central tenets, for their quarrels...
...earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved over the waters...