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...above all, Arcadia has managed to skate between preachiness and blasphemy by taking the religion out of God, literally. The show's creator, Barbara Hall, gave the writers a list of 10 "commandments" ("God cannot directly intervene"; "Everyone is allowed to say no to God, including Joan"). The third dictum is "God can never identify one religion as being right." This is probably an impossible rule to follow--some people believe in a God who is quite particular about which religion is right, and by the fourth episode God alludes to having told Noah to build the Ark. But mostly...
...have religious police. Yet none of these peccadilloes detracts from the novel's momentum, which continuously hurtles the reader forward. Eliot himself, in an essay defending Wilkie Collins, the Victorian master of melodrama (and author of a great thriller with an Asian setting, The Moonstone), laid down the dictum that the first requirement of any literature is that it be interesting. In this regard, Carey succeeds decisively...
...again look outside Italy, perhaps to Africa or Latin America, where an unabashed Catholicism is booming. And all the talk about his chances could wind up backfiring. "You can't seem to want it too badly," says a veteran Vatican official. Or, in the words of an old Roman dictum, "He who enters the conclave as Pope exits as Cardinal." --By Jeff Israely
...feel the Cardinals will again look outside Italy, perhaps to Africa or Latin America, where an unabashed Catholicism is booming. And early buzz could wind up backfiring. "You can't seem to want it too bad," says a veteran Vatican official. Or, in the words of an old Vatican dictum, "He who enters the conclave as Pope exits as Cardinal...
...instead of reinforcing patriotic appreciation of the Republican Party, many Americans were left confused by Spears’ mixed message. They loved her girl-on-girl kiss, but they also support their president in every decision that he makes, as per Britney’s dictum, including his decision to encourage a brigade of lawyers working patriotically to figure out a way to make gay marriage a crime. Had not the American people recently seen Britney dressed as a bride kissing another woman at a mock wedding? Was Britney Spears defying the president’s decision that gay marriage...