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...Revolution were] so much smarter,” Craig said. “They think two steps ahead. They helped expose some of our problems [including not] staying compact on defense [and not] communicating enough...
...source as old as Anselm. The French theologian Peter Abelard had also worked in the Middle Ages to address Jesus' role in reducing sinful humanity's distance from God, but he did so without recourse to tit-for-tat transaction. His atonement took place less as a compact between God the Father and God the Son and more in the hearts of believers cleaving to the message of Jesus' life--and the love most dramatically expressed in his willingness to die rather than renounce his calling. "Love answers love's appeal," Abelard wrote. With Jesus' example before it, humanity...
...Frazer accompanied the President to South Africa as part of a tour of the continent. They visited Senegal, Nigeria, Botswana and Uganda—countries Frazer said exemplify a “new compact of development, which focuses on ruling justly, investing in people and promoting economic freedom,” according to a column on the White House website published before the trip...
...dies, he leaves an entire landscape transformed. George Balanchine, the protean choreographer whose centenary is being celebrated this year by ballet companies the world over, left his imprint virtually everywhere in dance. Take a look at the typical American ballerina today: long, leggy, prodigiously athletic compared with the more compact, sedate ballerina of old. That?s the female figure that Balanchine cultivated - and glorified in so many of his works. Consider the prevalence today of ballets stripped of fairy-tale plots and elaborate costumes and sets - no story, just a focus on the music and movement. That?s the aesthetic...
...have to be helped around still on my two wretched sticks ? I crawl about from one room to another and try not to let me down." His long life's journey is dazzling and his pen nimble. And he is unhesitatingly honest in a treasurable series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar...