I have had the enormous pleasure once before in my life of chairing a seminar that was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities in which Charles Frankel, a great philosopher, a great, great friend of mine at Columbia, and I took a group of lawyers through some of the great texts in the humanities tradition that raised questions about law and political theory.
By treating the characters in Stalker as tragicomic everymen, rather than figures in a great text, Dyer brings out the humour and humanity in Tarkovsky's work.
He added, "I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence".
Scaled up 2x, some of the apps built for iPhone don't look great (the text in particular), but that was always an issue with the iPad as well.
In fact these great texts resemble Socratic dialogues in that each venture presupposes that meaning can indeed be addressed within the constraints of the form and in its language, while the meaning to be discovered through this argument cannot be presupposed.
There is encouraging evidence for this in the great texts of the major religions, all of which have much in common.
But whether we slog away at great chunks of text in the privacy of our own home or try to assimilate them through repetition during rehearsal, we have to believe that in the heat of performance they'll come out effortlessly and in the right order.
It's great for reading text in all light conditions but does not display video or other animation.
Telling of the convulsive period leading up to the beheading of Charles I at Westminster Hall in 1649, this latest work from the prolific Mr. Brenton ("Anne Boleyn" "Never So Good") combines courtroom drama and history play in a manner that succeeds mostly in suggesting other, greater texts.
This work, which Bernard Crick has called Arendt's "greatest," became a foundational text in the academic study of totalitarianism in the West after World War II.3 Arendt's most controversial book Eichmann in Jerusalem was a sequel to Origins.
