Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another catalog eulogist, Lynne Warren, noting Sultan's commitment to formal painting and his commendable lack of interest in grabbing quotes from visual mass media, winds up with the startling claim that "his works are meditations on the possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to...
Here is the source of Podhoretz's ire. Poets like Brodsky belong to that group of people who have little time for such political questions as the value of capitalism, and are interested in something more intangible, more transcendent, such as the condition of the human imagination.
In the late 15th century, the Russian state coalesced between the lands of the Tartars and the Lithuanians. Under Ivan III, its seat was Moscow and its heart the onion-domed fortress known as the Kremlin. Within this medieval city rose cathedrals and palaces teeming with frescos of Christian martyrs...
THE LEADING critic of contemporary liberal education, Allan Bloom, has railed against such historicism. He decries the notion that man's being is essentially historical, and his work never transcendent. It will not please him that great books will be taught by the historians of Robinson Hall.
Faced with the tedium of me-too panel discussions, candidates have created their own exhibition season. No longer does a contender have to wait to be nominated to experience the joys of hurling invective face-to-face at an opponent from the other party. Democrat Bruce Babbitt and Republican Pete...