Word: angelicizing
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Mother Joan, the nun possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced...
The Middle Ages' Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, hewed to a middle way that became the orthodoxy of the modern Roman Catholic Church after it was canonized by the Council of Trent in the 16th century. Aquinas taught that faith was essential to salvation, but so were good acts...
The trouble seems to be that Kurosawa got fascinated with Dostoevsky's genius and forgot about his own. He follows with nearsighted assiduity every thread of the novelist's intricately woven tale. What's more, he too often tells the story in the author's words...
He was angelic-looking, penniless, tattered, and an instant success in Paris' literary cafes. The aging Victor Hugo hailed him as "Shakespeare enfant" another poet called him "Satan amidst the doctors." Paul Verlaine, then 27 and already an established poet, fell helplessly in love with him.
Reason for the U.S.L.T.A.'s action: Ralston blew up while losing a doubles match to Mexico in the American Zone Davis Cup finals in Cleveland last month. Weakened by a throat infection. Ralston tossed and kicked his racket, slammed the ball into the net in disgust at his own...