Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book very much on the old Meihac & Halevy lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee is as ingenious and clever...
...material in philosophy, religion, art, politics, and learning alike, and out of this most disconnected material, he constructed his divine comedy. Through it there runs one fundamental idea, - the idea of love. This idea of love cannot be said to be Dante's distinctively, for it is rather the fusion of three ideas of love which he found prevalent in the world: - the Platonic love, or the desire of the incomplete to make itself perfect, whose ideal was the passion for pure wisdom and pure beauty; the Christian love, which finds its source in tenderness and infinite pity...
...they have shown, as they have shown today a surprising power of accepting and pushing the ideas of the people among whom they dwell. It is by the combination and interaction of great national cultures that the civilization of the world has advanced; Christianity itself shows a fusion of Jewish, Greek, and Roman ideas. Each element of civilization must have its due recognition...