Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Three Musketeers takes the Dumas novel's action line, a star-studded cast, and an Errol Flynn swashbuckle approach, with slapstick sloshed in every few minutes to douse whatever drama or gravity or sentimentality might begin to smolder. Lester and screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser don't play with any...
Similarly, the new text includes a much more specific welcome to the prophet Elijah, who is expected to "visit" each Seder. "From beyond," says the new text unabashedly, "Elijah's spirit enters these walls ..." The expansion of the Elijah rite, Rabbi Bronstein explains somewhat prolixly, is a move "to...
One of the major arguments used by President Nixon and the White House staff to justify the Watergate abuses has been that they were committed in the name of national security. Last week that rationale was discredited in a U.S. district court in Washington by one of Nixon's...
The very meaning of Yorunomado, "Night-window," speaks for the poem's sadness. It goes back to a concept from Blake's contemporary Kant of a windowpane between man and his world. There is always that doubt in man's ability to know either the objective thing-in-itself or...
Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment conveys a less overwhelming sense of urgency than Coils. These poems express a muted joy, but it is an unpeopled land. Merwin sees in things a clear reflection of the material world; he doesn't doubt man's ability to know the "thing-in-itself...