Word: deafening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frail, adventurous André Malraux. When his three-volume Psychology of Art was published in the U.S. in 1949-51, it was welcomed with raves-and a good deal of honest bewilderment. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson: "It is hard to judge very brilliant books, which may dazzle, deafen and stun when they explode under our noses, but [this is] perhaps one of the really great books of our time." Malraux himself was not so pleased with the book; it suffered from poor organization and a turbulent, over-intricate style. He rewrote it as a one-volume work, The Voices...
...These facts, like all the facts of creation, demand of men and women and children that they meet them. The task is to rid our ears of the racket of ideas and explanations by which we seek vainly and miserably to deafen our selves. It is to listen for encounters with God's facts. This I know...