Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp, character-etching lines, MacLeish gets them onto the platform, which turns out to be "heaven" in a play about Job that is regularly performed there. They find the masks the regular actors use, and turn themselves into God (Mr. Zuss) and Old Nick himself. The familiar words of the Bible begin to issue from their mouths. "Whence comest thou?" asks God. "From going to and fro in the earth," Satan replies, "and from walking up and down in it . . ." But with a roar, Nickles wrenches off his Satan mask and stares at it. "Those eyes see ... They...
...repentance in the signing of a card-this would be like playing a child's game if it were not done under such solemn pretension . . . The glib promise made over and over again that one thus 'receives the forgiveness of his sins and will go to heaven' discredits Christianity in the eyes of discerning men and women ... Its success in winning thousands by the incantation of an uninterpreted formula must be measured against the vaster number who have been perplexed and even alienated from Christianity by this perversion...
Faith and food are close company in the Old Testament and the New-from that first bite in Eden, through the Passover meal and the manna from Heaven, to the feeding of the multitudes and the Last Supper. The resurrected Christ was specifically recognized by the breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany...
Balance of Peace. "I am more concerned over the Japanese situation than almost any other," T.R. said after the Treaty of Portsmouth. "Thank heaven we have the Navy in good shape." Into the White House trickled a stream of intelligence reports that Japan was preparing to attack the Philippines, or Panama, or both, indicating, too, that many European powers were not averse to balancing off new Japan against the emergent might...
...last decade Rouault's canvases grew brighter, with a new profusion of yellows and greens, as though heaven's trumpets could sound joy as well as fearful contrition. "I have spent my life painting twilights," he said. "I ought to have the right now to paint the dawn." Last week, at his home in Paris, Georges Rouault, 86, died of uremia. During the last six months he had painted hardly at all. Said his daughter Isabelle: "He remained silent, absorbed before the unfinished canvases on the walls of his studio, as though he were seeking a final contact...