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...worst failing is the character of Lawrence himself. It's not that he is unhistorical (this may well be true): he is unbelievable. A curious amalgam of Joan of Arc and Alcibiades, this Lawrence passes through a succession of fatuous poses. He begins as a simple pacifist pan-Arab fanatic, and through a hilarious concatenation of Grade B events (he is forced to shoot two intimate friends and watch a third sink smoothly into quickland) comes to realize that his mission will involve him in shedding blood. This, however, comes rather to appeal to him ("I enjoyed it, I enjoyed...
Educational is not quite the word it nor intellectual, nor documentary, nor esthetic, but with a subtle amalgam of these things, so-called educational television appeals strongly to what Garroway calls "a vital minority." The programs are sometimes tedious, with academic hairsplitting that would thrill a graduate seminar But from Pablo Casals' cello lessons to Photographer Ernst Haas's presentations on The Art of Seeing, WNDT is so loaded with rewarding material that many people have bought television sets for first time in order not to miss it. In its first three months, New York's Channel...
...organized by the Rev. E. Duane Thistlethwaite, 70, a retired Methodist minister-who take the sick to doctors and hospitals, lend wheelchairs, crutches, and even money to widows waiting for their social security or estate funds to start coming in. With typical Sun City initiative, the community church (an amalgam of 35 Protestant denominations) is currently raising money for a small nursing home for long-term cases...
...witty, 9th century Irish scholar-monk, John Scotus Erigena. "A humanist ahead of his time," as Nigg calls him. Erigena taught at the short-lived but brilliant Palace Academy of France's King Charles the Bald, and developed a highly individual theology that often sounds like an amalgam of intellectual strains from the best current Protestant thinking. He thought of God as "overtruth" and "the overwisdom"-phrases that would not be out of place in the Systematic Theology of Paul Tillich.* In the manner of a Biblical demythologist like Rudolf Bultmann, he regarded Adam as the idea...
...trains stop at the city of Mahagonny, on the Gulf coast of the U.S., and no steamers list it as a port of call. But to informed, between-wars German theatergoers, the imaginary town was a metropolis of almost legendary fame-a strange amalgam of jazz-age New Orleans and beer-cellar Berlin...