Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...God or Man or Both...
...stop complaining or God might not grant my wish to get the fungo bat surgically removed from Mickey Rivers's behind...
...they did. So we sat for a while, playing cards, smoking cigarettes and talking, when I discovered the real reason for my new friendships. There was this M.P. on the train, see, and he was prowling around in the parlor car so that they couldn't buy any beer. God forbid these poor suckers should get bombed on their last night of freedom. Well, this situation inspired me to do what I felt was my patriotic duty. Over the next six hours I bought somewhere between 40 and 50 cans of beer (with collected funds, of course). The geek behind...
...similarity of their experiences in the twilight zone: a sense of hovering above their beds, a trip through a prettily lighted tunnel toward a bright glow, pearly gates (or something quite like them symbolically), the whole accompanied by warm, sensual feelings. Many, of course, catch a glimpse of God along the way, and they all make The End sound infinitely preferable to a case of the Russian flu. But the film is so simplemindedly earnest in tone and repetitive that it robs intrinsically fascinating material of all drama and mystery. Technically, the picture is so inept that it is impossible...
...conference could "speak with eloquence on political issues, but had no spiritual message," says one church analyst. Nor was Carr above using the most sacred themes for political ends. Defending the guerrillas, he told the last All Africa Assembly, in 1974: "In accepting the violence of the cross, God, in Jesus Christ, sanctified violence into a redemptive instrument." Such comments helped dry up vital funding from church agencies in Western Europe...