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...John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is a great Protestant allegory. It is also an allegory of Everyman, and many men have tried to adapt it and make it their own. Antinomians tried to make it even more Calvinist than Bunyan himself. Tractarian scribes, trying to bring the Anglican Church closer to Roman Catholic practices, rewrote it to take out the Reformation sting. A Roman Catholic version appeared with the head of the Virgin Mary (the worship of whom was heresy to Baptist Bunyan) on the title page. Now Dr. Harding, a leader of the Jung school...
...Bunyan thought that he was writing only the story of a man named Christian who surmounts the countless snares and obstacles of the Devil in his long journey from mortal ills to God's Promised Land. In reality, according to Author Harding, Christian's journey "is an expression of the archetypal pattern of the search for wholeness common to all humanity . . . the journey everyone undertakes when he embarks on a psychological analysis...
...some stereotypes-Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan, the peerless woodsman of the Northwest...
...giant, because of his size, his physique, and his apparent brute strength has always been a center of attraction. He has been glorified in the past through such stores as Paul Bunyan and John Henry. But in recent years, the influence of books like Budd Schulberg's "The Harder They Fall," has reduced the huge athlete to a much less glorified status...
...enjoyed." These selections are indicative of Potter's good taste and wide reading, but of little else. It is a tribute to Potter's prestige that such a book has been published and sold. I think now that he has broken the ice that we may expect a "From Bunyan to Benchley" from S. J. Perelman, and soon after that, "Two-Line Jokes Which I Have Liked Best," by Bob Hope...