Word: barbarian
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...Christian belief. In his self-congratulatory A Call for a New Reformation, Spong claims that theism is dead, that Jesus was not God incarnate, that original sin is false, that the virgin birth was impossible, that miracles never happened, that the story of Christ on the cross is "a barbarian idea," that Jesus was not resurrected, that prayer does not work, that there is no heaven or hell and that there is "no external, objective, revealed standard" for moral behavior (although, curiously, racism and sexism and homophobia are objectively wrong). Spong also accused St. Paul of being a repressed homosexual...
DIED. GIL KANE, 73, self-taught comic-book artist whose half-century career included reviving Green Lantern in the late 1950s and the Atom soon after, and reinterpreting other great superheroes, from Spider-Man and the Hulk to Captain America and Conan the Barbarian; of cancer; in Miami...
...biological basis (for instance, the waist-to-hip ratio that men consider most attractive in women is the one that is most likely to ensure the successful delivery of a baby). And why did the women of ancient Greece become so enchanted by the blonde hair of the barbarian captives? Why are "Baywatch" and Titanic so vastly popular in Iran? But even if the standard of beauty were to be in some sense universal or biologically coded, that would not make it good. We are creatures of reason who should be more concerned with justice and happiness than with mere...
...seems to represent the woman, the outlaw, the stranger, the barbarian," she writes. "He plays with the feeble inventions of human order. Women become freer, more powerful and dangerous than men. Roles are reversed, the king becomes a woman; magic overpowers logic...
...uttering a word. Interestingly, even in the beginning, Zimmett makes it clear that Lavinia isn't quite the paragon of innocence and virtue we might expect: there's an amusing non-verbal interplay between her and Tamora, in which she leaves no doubts as to her opinion of the barbarian prisoner...