Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE FIXER. John Frankenheimer has directed this adaptation of Bernard Malamud's somewhat flawed novel with care and dedication. Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm are all transcendent in their roles.
Of course the best descriptions of transcendent states is not necessarily either contemporary or western. D. T. SUZUKI's essays on Satori, the poetry of VEDANTA, the Bhagavad Gita, CHRIST's Sermon on the Mount, all put into word what is ultimately wordless, ineffable, breathtaking, transcendent, God-knowing.
Search for Transcendence. Harvard Divinity School's theologian of the secular, black-bearded Harvey Cox, startled an opening-day crowd of 4,000 at the conference when he charged that "hypocrisy-not unbelief-is really the major religious problem of our time." He suggested that the Vatican might well...
If there is any rock musician to day who understands this idea, it is John Lennon. I don't think John Lennon wants anything. He doesn't care who's "better," who sells more, who gets more groupies. Unlike John Lennon, most rock players are very non-transcendent beings.
Despite its incalculable tragic dimensions, the drama of the European Jew remains elusive to all but a handful of films-notably The Shop on Main Street and The Fixer. By being frankly fictional, both films create their own transcendent reality. By trying to be real, The Song and the Silence...