Word: aquinases
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The Office of Katharsis. Professor Levin argues that Joyce's "imaginative constructions are ... grounded on the rock of his buried religious experience." Strictly speaking, Joyce's religious experience was adolescent. He was barely out of his teens when he renounced Ireland and with it the Roman Catholic Church...
Steeled in the school of old Aquinas.
"Wholeness, harmony and radiance" were the ideals of art that Joyce took from Aquinas. "How can these qualities be constructed," asks Professor Levin, "out of the fragments, the discords and the obscure details of modern life?" He gives what he thinks was Joyce's answer: "By proceeding through what...
"As feudalism was the earthly seeding-bed of Thomas Aquinas, as emergent capitalism was the forcing house of Calvin, so our scientific, political, economic structure, without precedent, whose birth is our present agony, will be the seeding-bed of new discoveries of God's approach to Man, and of...
Uruguay and New Zealand (Roberto MacEachen and Sir Carl Berendsen) tried to escape from the room, were testily waved back to their seats by the Chair (Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human...