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...After a bunch of choir stuff, principal Fred Dreier gave a speech. I heard phrases like "lived through Hiroshima," "suffered a stroke" and "Jesus Christ, Buddha and Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...
...left. His fingers, which once flew over the frets at Mach 2 speed, now do the walking. 'You know, I can't do what I used to do when I was 20 or 30,' he told David John Farinella. 'With the arthritis I got, Christ, I got no fingers. But what I got, I play. A knuckle here, a knuckle there. You forget about the arthritis and everything else when you're playing...
...milk of his imagination. Even if we didn't know that James Basire, the engraver to whom his father apprenticed him, had sent him to study and draw the monuments of Westminster Abbey, we could see how deeply the form-language of medieval art penetrated a marvelous watercolor like Christ in the Sepulchre, Guarded by Angels, circa...
...Blake, heavenly characters were entirely real. You could run into them on the street and speak of them casually. "I always thought that Jesus Christ was a snubby," he remarked--Blake had a snub nose--"or I should not have worshipd him if I had thought he had been one of those long spindle-nosed rascals." He spoke to angels, chatted with the devil and dined with the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah. The latter told him that "my senses discover'd the infinite in everything, and as I was then persuaded and remain confirm'd that the voice of honest...
...four or five to have a conversion experience with integrity." Fellowship leaders say that attitude underestimates the spiritual aptitude of kids. "I'm not saying a child is going to understand what Calvinism is," says Fournier. "But he can understand what it is to put his faith in Christ...