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Paul was about 38 then. According to a 2nd century work called The Acts of Paul and Thecla, he was "a sturdy little balding, bowlegged man, with meeting eyebrows and a somewhat hooked nose; full of grace; for sometimes he appeared like a man and sometimes he had the face of an angel." Detractors in the Corinthian church called "his bodily presence . . . weak, his speech contemptible," and Paul himself acknowledges that he is "rude in speech, yet not in knowledge." Paul's letters give the best evidence of how he must have preached (the direct quotes attributed...
...much in 14 hours a day with her four classes of 100 students, I should be able to do the same thing with my five classes of 160 students in-let's see, now-22 hours and 24 minutes a day. The Lord help me when that i?2nd one strolls through the door, though...
...beginnings, and Amis writes knowledgeably of Lucian of Samosata. The Greek writer's True History is an early account of a space voyage (the ship is whirled to the moon by a waterspout), but though fictional it is hardly scientific, even considering the state of science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came the big turning point. Readers became too sophisticated to accept the simple substitution of the blaster...
Creature of Habit. The problems that the commuter poses to the nation's cities are great and prickly-but they are not unique. In the 2nd century, the satirist Juvenal graphically described the swarming streets of ancient Rome. They were thick with litter bearers, chariot jams, and furious drivers who knocked people down and ran over them in their haste to get home to dinner. Many a Roman mumbled in his toga: "Quid hercle faciamus de obstructione?"* But it was not until late 19th century London that the commuter appeared as a distinct type. London's rapid growth...
Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England...