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...Cottesloe, The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday, that retell the Bible, accenting the life and death of Christ. The language comes from the alliterative, rhyming poetry of medieval English miracle, or mystery, plays, chiefly the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles, but the visual imagery is imaginatively modern: God sits in judgment on a whirling metal cage of a world, and Jesus ascends into heaven on a forklift truck. Director Bill Bryden has preserved the vernacular tone and naive simplicity of the originals and has staged the action so that much of the audience can mingle with the actors...
Some men, no doubt, will, before sleep, consider One thought: I am alone. But some. In the mercy of God, or booze...
...American Catholic bishops also addressed the nuclear issue squarely with their provocative pastoral letter: "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response." Erupting from a church history that either ignored nuclear weapons or, in the nationalistic enthusiasms of some clergymen, saw such weapons as new arms for Christian soldiers, the bishops suddenly leaped forward: "We cannot avoid our responsibility to lift up the moral dimensions of the choices before our world and nation." They emphasized that they were speaking purely from a moral pulpit, "as pastors, not politicians." No sooner had they spoken, however, than many conservative American...
...murderous capacities is deeper. However monstrous our visions of the Bomb's future, they were only mirrors of what we did, and would probably do again, if we could get away alive. Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, looked down on Hiroshima and asked, "My God, what have we done?" We did what we always...
...hope shared by the spacemen is that by working together toward a common goal, the two nations might somehow put aside their differences. "It's hard to imagine a more dramatic and fitting symbol on behalf of the human species," said Sagan. "We should embrace not the god of war, but the planet named after...