Word: gods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their families. Negotiations went smoothly until Max insisted on default clauses that would make the purchasers liable should the paper fail for any reason, from staff negligence to earthquakes to sheriff's raids. The tribe agreed to the first liability, but balked at taking responsibility for acts of God or Ronald Reagan. There the matter lay until one morning last week when the tribe arrived at the office to discover that Max had made off with the subscription lists, some ad copy and an office machine. "An act of aggression," one angry tribesman cried...
...song goes on, machines are doing all of man's work for him by 5555. artificial insemination is common place by 6565, and a thousand years later God is thinking maybe it's time for Judgment...
...odors into the theater and sent ghosts jumping from the screen to sail over the audience's heads into the balcony. All that ingenuity cannot compare with the gimmick in Hard Contract. It is gas, cleverly concealed inside the dialogue by Writer-Director S. Lee Pogostin. For example: "God hardly ever comes to Madrid any more; he left with Picasso," and "Evil is a giant; good is when evil takes a rest...
...adjustment to mortality by separating the indestructible spirit from the bone and gristle of being. Such factors, he believes, separate man from natural pride in his fleshly individuality, humbling him and cutting him off from his true spiritual condition-what Harrington calls a "state of Permanent Revolution against Imaginary Gods." The Devil, it follows, far from being the embodiment of evil, is man's healthiest prototypical projection of his own radical intention to challenge the gods-in fact, to become God. All humbling conceptions of man's relationship to the unknown, the author insists, are bad. Even...
Whether Harrington's hotly held bootstrap faith in salvation through medical engineering is conceived as atheistic Im-mortalism or accommodated under the umbrella of God's will is a matter of choice. Even world-weary skeptics, though, should find comfort in the vision of a future in which man's most fitting epitaph will be "Enough Is Enough...