Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After checking a cross section of farmers to see which party they thought best served their interests, a Gallup poll last week reported: Democrats 62%, Republicans...
...Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength), Explorer Lewis quickly comes to the heart of space theology: If man is not unique, what of Christ's human incarnation and man's redemption through him? Suggests Lewis: redemption may be possible through other means than "birth at Bethlehem, the cross on Calvary and the empty tomb . . . To different diseases, or different patients sick with the same disease, the great Physician may have applied different remedies.'' Or else outer-world species might not be fallen, hence not require redemption...
...CROSS OF BARON SAMEDI (502 pp.)-Richard Dohrman-Houghton Miff...
...stronger literary quirks, prejudices, theological theories and odd bits and pieces of information than seem possible in one man. Samples: Milton's L'Allegro is not much of a poem-Robert Frost has written better; Saint Paul was dishonest with money; Jesus did not die on the Cross but may or may not have turned up in Rome in A.D. 49; bath water in Australia "goes widdershins [contrariwise] down the waste-pipe"; the "concept of the supernatural is a disease of religion," although, paradoxically, Graves-who claims to have risen from the near dead after being officially listed...
...weak-at the expense of his real one, learned too late by Owen: "If we are weak, we are not strong, and what we are, you see, ruins everything." In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ironic way, the baron is Author Dohrman's severest critic. How much closer can a writer get to the portrait of the artist as an undertaker...