Word: archangels
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...guard the east gates of Eden with flashing swords; in Ezekiel they overpower the prophet with awesome visions, four-headed, multiwinged and many eyed; in Revelation they do battle with a dragon. Milton describes the "flaming Seraph, fearless, though alone, encompassed round with foes." And Rilke wrote, "If the archangel now, perilous, from behind the stars took even one step down toward us, our own heart, beating higher and higher, would beat us to death." Every angel, he declared, "is terrifying...
...first battles of the war, British and French troops were retreating from a German assault. As Burnham tells the story, the wounded soldiers were taken to field hospitals where one, then another and another, told the nurses of seeing angels on the field. The French saw the Archangel Michael, riding a white horse. The British said it was St. George, "a tall man with yellow hair in golden armor, on a white horse, holding his sword up, and his mouth open, crying 'Victory!' " The nurses reported a startling serenity in the dying men, as though they had nothing to fear...
...little self-conscious. For example, a more or less random character suddenly starts an erudite discussion on the crumbling of the Soviet Union: "If we let Russia get away from us this time, if we don't help, then we've failed twice, you know. First at Archangel...
Harvard Film Archive. Archangel at 3p.m. Van der Keuken Films #1 at 4:45 p.m. Vermontis For Lovers at 7:30 p.m. with John O'Brien inperson. Vand der Keuken Films #4 at 9:30 p.m.Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. $4 forstudents and seniors; $5 for general admission.$6.50 for in-person specials...
Harvard Film Archive. Archangel at 4:30p.m. Premiere of Face Value at 7 p.m. Van derKeuken Films #2 at 9:30 p.m. Carpenter Center forthe Visual Arts. $4 for students and seniors; $5for general admission...