Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpretation of all this allegory, the author declares in the postscript preface that the Bible is a mess, and uses the more modern translations of it for his proof. The Book of Revelations is "a curious record of the visions of a drug addict." And to him Christianity is "an amazing muddle, which has held out only because the views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds." Suspecting that the masses are ready to accept the doctrine of Truth, the author feels that he is timely in getting out this plea for a realignment...
...innocuous Green Pastures because it represented the Deity on the stage.) The Bible, says Shaw, is a mess; the extent of the messiness is just beginning to be shown up by modern translations. He calls the Book of Revelation "a curious record of the visions of a drug addict." All religious leaders, he thinks, are misunderstood by their followers right from the start. Christianity "is an amazing muddle, which has held out not only because the views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds, but because his appearance was followed by the relapse in civilization...
...maintain a judicial rather than executive attitude. He will not go popping his head into classrooms or make long speeches at faculty meetings. The academic side of Princeton will remain in the capable hands of Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor ones and write a full-size...
OPIUM, THE DIARY of AN ADDICT-Jean Cocteau-Longmans, Green...
Though he seems to have been "disintoxicated" several times, Cocteau, unlike famed Addict Thomas De Quincey, admits no desire to "reform." He writes: "Do not expect me to be a traitor. Naturally opium remains unique and its well-being superior to that of health. To it I owe my perfect hours." Saying that to lecture an opium addict is like telling Tristan to kill Isolde, he comes nearest to an apology when he writes: "Living is a horizontal fall. But for that fixative, a life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned...