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...eight-day-old babe's lips, prefigures the Roman Catholic baptismal ceremony in which a morsel of salt is placed in the mouth of the child to ensure its allegorical purification. In the Christian catechism, salt is still a metaphor for the grace and wisdom of Christ. When Matthew says, "Ye are the salt of the earth/' he is addressing the blessed, the worthy sheep in the flock, not the erring goats...
...tone Rosi struck before, in the notable Christ Stopped at Eboli two years ago, which also contrasted the timeless virtues of peasant life with the murderous meaninglessness of modern intellectual and ideological bustle. He was not then, and he is not now, soft-headed in his appreciation of the simple life. Nor is he ever less than humane and fair-minded in presenting the torments of the bedeviled worldly. Indeed, he strikes one as being among the world's most scrupulous directors, a man whose instinct for the play of light and the unobtrusively correct camera...
...heard every single SAT joke ever invented by mid-July. Several times. I had heard that Jesus Christ didn't get into an Ivy League college because he got nailed on the Boards. Also that the Educational Testing Service (ETS) scores the tests by kicking them downstairs or by flipping coins. At the College Board, they collect jokes like this and tape them to the outside of their office doors. It helps them feel they're in touch with the outside world...
Characteristically, Fleming downplays his position as the all-time leading Harvard scorer. "I don't play just to break records," be said. "It's just an honor, he says, and "all my talents I attribute to Christ," This deep belief in god has shaped the way he lives, the way he plays, and the way he treats other people. "If somebody gets knocked down I'm always one of the first gays over to help him up, even if he's on the other team... I consider other guys on other teams as friends, this is just a game. They...
Though nothing else in the show is quite so majestic, it is full of striking religious images. There is, for instance, the white room containing the paintings of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-80). Convinced that her fate was to be the bride of Christ and to bear witness to Scripture, she covered hundreds of panels with hortatory texts and vibrant images of heaven and hell; in New Jerusalem, circa 1965-75, the choiring angels burst into white bloom like magnolias around a many-chambered house...