Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richardson (March 15) quotes Theodor Herzl to prove Israel is a "tool...of imperialist powers." This is equivalent to quoting Marx to explain China's current position and policies. Richardson, ignorant of the history of Zionism, is unaware that the moving element in the foundation of Zionism and the creation of a Jewish national community in Palestine was not Herzl but the poor Jews of Eastern Europe, living under the persecution of Czarist Russia. These Jews were for the most part socialist and their aim was to establish a commonweaath that oppressed nobody. They created the uniquely successful collective...
Since Israel's creation, her interests and those of the U.S. have coincided. This is no less the case today. Mr. Richardson's allegations referring to Israel as an outpost of U.S. imperialism is reminiscent of those who popularized the "Protocols of The Elders of Zion," the forgery designed to "prove" the existence of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy. On this account, he is as perceptive as General George Brown was in stating that the Jews own the banks and newspapers in this country...
...baptism in reality." The theological musings in the diary amount to a rough draft of The Divine Milieu, the 1926-27 treatise (finally published in 1957) in which Teilhard formally set out his view of God as a "center" who "fills the whole sphere" of creation. Despite his disclaimers, the church found this idea dangerously akin to pantheism, the idea that God and the universe are identical. A comment on the last day of July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take part in sanctifying natural progress, evolution...
...STORY of Mariana serves the authors the way a grain of sand serves an oyster. It acts as an irritant to which they return again and again, a stimulus to the creation of an entire world--a world constructed from materials extracted painfully from within themselves. Through letters supposedly written to and by Mariana, they invent a cast of characters and unfold a baroque plot full of passion and intrigue. Interspersed with these letters are vignettes of other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced...
...times, the book comes perilously close to taking itself too seriously, but it is this honesty that saves it. The opening letters establish a tone of self-conscious dedication to a revolutionary literary experiment, to the creation of a sisterhood, to the stripping away of all masks and to the exposure of women's true feelings about love and passion. And then, in Letter Three, there is a subtle, slightly self-mocking shift...