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These three subjects are closely woven together. Though history provides the evidence of the human experience, poetry (i.e., literature) and philosophy provide understanding and meaning. Poetry "equips us to reason about history and to see the well-perceived person, place, or event, not from the point of view of our own times or of our party or of the age under consideration, but from history's own point of view, which is human . . . Philosophy cultivates the skill of examining. It leads the student to theorize . . . Like letters and history, philosophy is a skill as well as a corpus...
...half-sweater, half-vest is a reasonably priced article. The front looks like an ordinary vest, usually set in a square pattern with quietly contrasting colors, but the back is woven elastic. As long as a coat is worn over the vest, no one is the wiser...
...Farewell to Arms is organized connotatively around two poles. By a process of accrual and coagulation, the images tend to build round the opposed concepts of Home and Not-Home. Neither, of course, is truly conceptualistic; each is a kind of poetic intuition, charged with emotional values and woven, like a cable, of many strands...
Flowers of St. Francis. Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a rich cinematic garland by Roberto Rossellini (TIME...
Flowers of St. Francis. Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a rich cinematic garland by Roberto Rossellini (TIME...