Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the new comedians play the smaller clubs and hone their acts, the man they all want to be is, well, pretty much doing exactly the same thing. Except people are lining up for six hours for the privilege of watching him do it. Jerry Seinfeld has been on a...
But the ride down the other side more than justifies the climb. Stone's skill at contriving apocalyptic conclusions was visible in his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors (1967), and he maintained this standard for more than three decades. Not even his dedicated readers will be able to foresee...
But in a paradoxical way, yesterday's classic marked the flip side of Wells's personality--the Everyman. This balding, overweight, middle-aged man, who has more than his fair share of doppelgangers in the Yankee Stadium stands, lived out every fan's fantasy, a collective dream of transcendent excellence...
That he is at least that is not questionable, even if one anticipates a millennium of wrangling about women's rights at the altar, the distribution of hierarchical power and allocutory nuance. But there are many thousands who will live well into the next century with photographic memories of John...
Community: The Hajj brings together Muslims from around the world and unites them in a spiritual effort. In addition to its symbolic value, there is much to be said on the merits of having believers of all backgrounds and races physically present at the same place. The setting of the...