Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allies and true friends have disputes. They seek ways to resolve divergent policies. But they do not debate "the fundamental nature of their relationship," for that is not at issue. TIME does grave injury to a strong and solid alliance by its clarion call for such a debate between the...
When questioned in the House on the sale of range-extending equipment to Saudi Arabia for its American-made F-15 fighter jets, Haig also raised the idea of a Middle Eastern confederacy based on transcendent anti-Soviet interests. Said he: "It is fundamentally important to begin to develop a...
So into the sick bay of the short story wanders 34-year-old Mark Helprin with his second collection of short fictions. "Ellis Island" and Other Stories. And though we might hope him to be the prophet of the short story's Second Coming, a blazing savior curing the lepers...
Now, at the beginning of the '80s, Americans may be on the point of another departure. The '80s may witness, for example, a long-overdue transition from an emphasis on feeling-"If it feels good, do it!"-to a keener focus on thought; feelings, at least the transcendent...
Why? He claims to have poisoned Mozart years before. Beethoven reported this unsubstantiated charge in an entry of his conversation book of 1824. More pertinently, Salieri confesses to the envy that breeds malice when a mediocre talent meets a transcendent genius. In editing and reshaping his own text for Broadway...