Word: christs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results: "Ostensibly . . . minds are being cleared. But are they? If Christ was just a man, and Mary just a wife, if God is a likely probability and life after death a less likely one, then it is sensible enough not to trouble too much about these things. But if, in crises, the people who don't bother about God start praying . . . if, at funerals, the people who don't bother about life after death want assurance . . . then we may legitimately be suspicious. Are these minds clearer, or are they . . . less clear than ever...
Terror & Comfort. Lewis throws British understatement to the winds in praise of Macdonald's religious wisdom: "I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. . . . Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined...
...Much in American history happened before 1776 or 1492. The birth of Christ in Palestine still arouses a deeper emotional response in Americans than even the Fourth of July. . . . The Athenian Plato, the Spaniard Cervantes, the English Shakespeare, the German Goethe, the Frenchman Balzac, played a large part in shaping the American mind. By excessive emphasis on American history, literature and civilization, we are cutting ourselves off from the broader, deeper, more humane currents in our own American tradition...
...last penny, Rank usually manages to beat him out of the last ha'penny. And Rank is also ruthlessly fair, yet does not always take kindly to criticism. To a newspaper critic, he once roared: "Don't you know, when you write that kind of thing, that Christ is looking over your shoulder?" Yet Rank bears no rancor for Cinemactor James Mason, who thinks that Rank's monopolistic operations will eventually wreck Britain's movie industry. Recently Rank was called upon to accept a British drama award on Mason's behalf-a situation so whimsical...
...Christians by the Emperor Nero. By twelve, she had done a novel about the French Revolution. She also attended grade school. But father Arthur Caldwell, who was a commercial artist, disapproved of pampering and educating women. When his daughter was 15 and had just finished a biography of Christ, he put her to work in a bindery...