Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite questions about its feasibility, advocates argue that a universal national-service program has transcendent benefits for the nation as a whole. "The real advantage of national service is not to the young," says Moskos. "The fundamental benefit is to society itself in reinstating its sense of comity, community and...
PAUL SIMON: GRACELAND (Warner Bros.). Transcendent spirit under African skies.
The machine, with its stripped and logical forms, its imagery of power, change and fast communication, would make concrete what Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had...
That such contradictions exist in the gifted and complex man from Queens is not all that puzzling. For the querulous Cuomo is often at odds with himself. At 53 he still wrestles with unanswered questions about the direction and purpose of his life. Whether to run for President is but...
Or were the Marcos shoes, like the billions of stolen dollars, merely grotesque? The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant...