Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout Rationale, Legman is concerned with a transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a...
There is resolution only in more suffering, suicide, and murder. Transcendent, however, is the hope for "a new life"--and this hope is just as gripping as the sordidness that went before it. No Place to be Somebody is something to see.
"Sixty percent of reggae is frustration of oppressed people," Jimmy Cliff told Andrew Kopkind of The Real Paper in 1973. "Forty percent is fantasy." Fantasy prevailed last Saturday night; little frustration showed. "We come from Jamaica with the message of peace and love," Jimmy Cliff announced during the concert, but...
Good people, families, humanists, schools, civic institutions, voluntary societies that are untouched by religion are as involved in the search as are those who identify with particular faiths. Many of them have found terms for moral action in their own "colonies" or "tribes," whether these be philosophical and family traditions...
And finally, there is an almost mystical quality that suffuses his relationship to music. Through it, Chen has found moments of seemingly transcendent illumination. "It's like when you are trying to focus a camera. So you strive to have that moment again, but you can't make it every...