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...unfortunately add demonic or hateful doctrines to the core teachings, such as making themselves personal messiahs and predicting Armageddons. But other movements, less the products of half-crazed do-it-yourself-messianic minds and more the product of thousands of years of religious evolution in India, China, Japan, also abound, attract followers, attract attention. The latter group should not be grouped with the former for attack...
...writing big movies and novels (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and unprofitable short fiction, because "in a novel or a play you must be a whole man. In a collection of stories you can be all the men or fragments of men, worthy and unworthy, who in different seasons abound in you. It is a luxury not to be scorned...
...elsewhere on the stage. Brook mines all the playwright's caustic, worldly wit. A line from Enobarbus, who tells of seeing Cleopatra "hop 40 paces through the public street," inspires him to make the Queen's court a frolicking, unregal place where games and horseplay abound. With the help of Designer Sally Jacobs' simple set, he reaches boldly for a world that cannot be onstage: the great battles. The foreground is partly enclosed by six long translucent panels; behind them is a deep background, a shadowy terrain full of strife, the comings and goings of soldiers, sailors...
...some sports, you had better have been All-State), but Harvard's athletic department merits high marks for its maintenance of a broad slate of these supporting programs. This fall, both men's soccer and football will send forth J.V. and frosh outfits, and all year round opportunities abound for the magginal college jock...
Indeed, many Israelis are saying the same thing today, mainly because they believe he is seriously ill. Stories and speculation abound about his deteriorating health. He is known to have a bad heart condition and diabetes, and rumored to have just about everything else. Two weeks ago, he remained home for three days, supposedly resting, but widely believed to be ailing...