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Jones firmly believed that Christians, if they hoped to conquer the world for Jesus, would have to meet Eastern cultures on their own terms. He not only learned Hindi and Urdu, as did most other missionaries, but dressed in Indian clothes, openly sided with the independence movement. Today Jones finds that the spiritual gap between East and West has narrowed mightily. "We used to say that the mission field was on the map, but now I know it is in the heart," he says...
Then the doors opened, and the dripping masses poured in. Divide and conquer was the rule. The women stormed the stairs to the Marimekko dresses. The patient wicker stool-sitter triumphantly claimed a $969 sofa, reduced to $700. He had a brief scuffle with a parvenu female customer who arrived at 9, but she quickly yielded before such obviously superior expertise...
...conquer his fear of death, Unamuno mortified flesh and mind. He scampered daily up a nearby mountain, refused to wear a coat in the winter, plowed through philosophical works that were too formidable for most of his elders. By 16, he was ready to enter the University of Madrid, where he tackled all subjects and became a nonstop talker. After graduation, in fact, he talked himself out of one university job after another because he could not resist showing off his knowledge. One person always willing to listen was a gentle girl named Concha whom Unamuno had known from childhood...
Ruth Caplan, the ingenue, and Joseph Morlan, the sidekick, started with the disadvantage of the two weakest parts in the script. Neither of them managed to conquer this initial problem. Morlan's ill-timed hamming told against him when compared to Martin, and Miss Caplan, who looked remarkably like Romney's Lady Hamilton in one scene, was generally ineffective...
Much of the period atmosphere resulted from Leigh Rand's sets, cleverly designed to conquer the traditional producer's nightmare over the small Agassiz Theatre. The cluttered 19th Century stage is recreated with a stream of interlocking flats, while the grim coloring and crooked street patterns set the tone for the action on stage. Lighting by the incomparable Jonathon Warburg shows off the scenery to its best advantage. Period costumes were splendid. Anita Scott must have used some Hogarth drawings as a guide for 1770 decor...