Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oh, Kay' which was first produced in 1926, is not perhaps the Hope Diamond of the twenties musical--not exactly, the specimen one would choose if one were putting together a museum exhibit on the subject. But it does have its transcendent moments, and the time in between is at...
Like the anti-busing people who talk of constitutional amendments and gather in groups like Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), the 2000 people who have come from across the country to attend this conference see busing as a transcendent political reality, an uncompromisable issue. Many here spend over twenty hours...
Vecsey deeply wants the Sizemore to have a better life, for Dan Sizemore to respect his work. But does he want them to drive a Volvo too? He projects his own cultural alienation onto his subjects. Just as their outsider friends do, as though there's no viable culture in...
In the Concord Sonata, all the ambivalences and ambiguities work. All through the sonata Ives keeps returning to the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but they sound with a double edge. Beethoven meant to Ives all that was most progressive, most substantial, most radical--the "last sublime...
A Well Spent Life. In Cambridge, nowadays, you can read "cult film" as "pure fantasy." When the rage is not happy lunatics, and it always is, it's the area's other cult film, The Harder They Come--escapism pure and simple. Not to decry the nice visuals (some handsomes...