Word: transcendental
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Scholarly cinema fans should rewind their Bergman and Eisenstein and grab ahold of some textual analysis of this year's crop of TSFs. BETTER OFF DEAD (Sack Charles) is truly a watershed TSF, a self-referential picture that turns the genre on its head like nothing since David Smith. Students...
At the heart of the crisis among Blacks is the death of a sacred understanding of the world. It was this ethno-theocentric vision which provided the foundation for moral and cognitive order in our communities. We have lost a meaningful sense of the transcendent or the Holy, and the...
The new wave of immigrants, says former California Governor Jerry Brown, is gradually changing the country's angle of vision. "The Pacific Rim is becoming the focal point for economic and political concerns," he says. "This immigration will eventually move Europe to a lower priority in the way we look...
And yet the memorial has a force that even some of its critics have begun to acknowledge. It is a transcendent re-creation of the experience of the war itself. To walk down the declivity toward the apex of the walls, the walkway declining at what seems to be precisely...
Later, at Harvard graduate school, French friends introduced Wilbur to a wider menu, including such nonclassical literature as the word games of the modernist writer Raymond Roussel and the visionary prose poems of Villiers de 1'Isle-Adam. Molière entered Wilbur's life in 1948 when...