Word: hebraic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel is the nonstop confession of Monty (né Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements as "Conquer America...
...liner notes to the album, Allen Ginsberg describes Dylan's singing in One More Cup of Coffee as "Hebraic cantillation," and indeed as Dylan chants the first verse of the song, you can imagine him as a cantor in a local synagogue chanting the Song of Songs...
...first section of the book, a set of biblical tales retold, Kolakowski puts the original ambiguities into the Marxist-Leninist idiom. While this sounds reductionist, the effect is quite the reverse. Kolakowski is so faithful to and concerned with the problematic paradox of Hebraic legend that he exaggerates the difficulties to the point where, for sheer ambivalence, his tales rival even the parables of Kafka. Translated into the lingo of current ideological strife, the Old Testament acquires an applicability most have long given up suspecting. To take his own best illustration, Kolakowski turns the story of Jacob and Esau into...
...work's defenders are rightly fascinated by the treatment of the issues, the "problems" raised--such as justice, mercy, creation, death, restraint, self-knowledge. These are serious intellectual matters, always worthy of exploration. The "measure" of the title seems to signify not only the Hebraic eye-for-an-eye mentality but also the ancient Greek virtue of moderation...
...popular jazz quartet of the post-World War II era. He had earned his secure nook in history and was hankering after other accomplishments. For one thing, he wanted to compose serious music-and he soon turned out three major religious works, including The Gates of Justice, a Negro-Hebraic summons to brotherhood, and Truth Is Fallen, a lament for the victims of Kent and Jackson State premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1971. For another, he had been playing as many as 250 one-nighters per year on the road and he wanted to spend more time with...