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Arnold Toynbee showed in his ten-volume Study of History that he could juggle the lives of civilization as confidently as lesser chroniclers dwell on the vagaries of municipal elections. Although his 1961 Reconsiderations amounted to an admission of error in some of the principles that sustained his Study, the work did not topple. Now, at 78, Toynbee is ready to cope with various mundane matters. He has taken note of the hippies ("A red warning light for the American way of life") and clashed head-on with advertising ("The destiny of our Western civilization turns on the issue...
...only to the couple but also to the entire "family unit," including children from previous marriages if brought to the ceremony, and all future children. Temple marriage is also vital to entering the highest of the three kingdoms of glory in the afterlife, the Celestial Kingdom, where all dwell in the presence...
...Christians, Jews and Moslems alike, Jerusalem is infinitely more than just an embattled city in the Palestine desert. To Jews, it is, according to Deuteronomy, "the place where Yahweh chose to dwell." For Christian churches, Jerusalem marks the mysterious intersection of eternity and time, the spot where God's crucified son died and then was resurrected. In Moslem legend, it was in Jerusalem that Mohammed, borne from Mecca by a winged mare, ascended to heaven from the site of Judaism's Temple to receive his supreme illumination from God. Although Palestine contains numerous landmarks renowned in religious history...
...jolt the spectators. In short, he plays with the audience. The author-actor states early in the play that "I have always thought we should make the audience and critics rehearse, too." The "Cavern" may refer to the whole theater, as well as to the kitchen where the servants dwell...
...save nor to order them. That is why the art of aphorism has rarely been considered major. Yet it is through his misanthropic aphorisms that Bierce should enter literature for keeps. The confident, eupeptic American spirit also has its dark side. And of those writers who chose to dwell on its shadows, few perceived or portrayed them with greater clarity than Bierce. His agonized view of human perfidy, which he found everywhere, raps imperatively on contemporary consciences...