Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-line story of the three tame bear cubs from the Denver zoo, let loose in the Rockies, that sat up before hunters, begged them for peanuts and were shot by them [TIME, Nov. 3], should not have come under the headline "Americana" but "The World, 20 centuries after Christ." Apparently, killing animals (like killing people) is something as natural today as it had been 10,000 years...
...Oregon coast to the festival, but he was not too ill to compose. He spends his days combing the beach looking for agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them. I wish they could teach me to relax...
...thorough and obviously sympathetic discussion of Berenice's training in Yogi lore reveals that Dreiser has finally found solutions to problems long troubling him. Always religious in nature and temperament, Dreiser devoted a good deal of his life to a search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution...
...Life." Charles Lamb was sent to Christ's Hospital, a London charity school. Thirty-five years later, he wrote of a headmaster: "He had two wigs. The one serene, smiling, freshly powdered, betokening a mild day. The other, an old discolored caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, 'Od's my life, Sirrah, I have a great mind to whip you,'-then, with as sudden a retracting impulse, fling back into...
...believe that Christ ever lived on the earth...