Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teacher: Do you have some idea of what God is like? Is there anything in church life or the Bible that will tell you a little bit of what God is like...
There is no assurance that some of the stories told of Holworthy are not a bit apocryphal. Truth may at times be stranger than fiction, but stories, even true ones, have a way of growing. For instance, how could 48 Holworthy men have fitted into the small Class Day fountain? And was Professor Sophocles ignorant or exempt from the dormitory regulations which prohibit animals of any nature from being in rooms...
...Another bit of good slapstick comes from the two hulking mice, Bill Amory and John Tehan, who are pleasantly uncoordinated and squeeky. Hal Scott, the Prince's herald, also proves himself a skilled children's performer with his relaxed, yet lively and friendly...
...Cradle" contains the most accomplished writing in the issue, which is no surprise, coming as it does from F. Kimball's ecclesiastic phase. I boggled a bit at the ending which, though perfectly consistent and the hinge of the story, was slightly theatrical...
Like all revolutionaries of real stature, Manet was not a bit afraid of the past. He drew from an extreme variety of sources, thereby established a broad and solid base for his own experiments.* Manet's reworkings of Hals, Goya and Giorgione, among others, led Oswald (The Decline of the West) Spengler to regard his work as the last gasp of great Western painting, yet his experiments caused Andre (The Voices of Silence) Malraux to call him the first modern artist. Perhaps he was both; certainly his Lunch on the Grass (opposite) stands as a kind of pylon...