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...permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON | 6/21/1961 | See Source »

...might be well to omit the lamentations of Amfortas from the Grail scenes, but certainly not the witty and ironic challenge of Mefistole who (the idea was of course Goethe's) twits Jehovah on having abjured a sense of humor. Lucien Price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASTER MUSIC | 3/15/1961 | See Source »

After eight years of serving his private eyewash to magazines, Hard Guy Mickey Spillane, 42, plans to come out with another book this spring. In the period since Spillane's Mike Hammer last gunned down the pike, Mickey has been a proselyting pacifist for Jehovah's Witnesses, has taken stock of his literary competition. "All of my early stuff," he says, "is now looked upon as mild. I was the first in the field, but now they've even got women writers who purvey more violence and tough talk than I ever did." Critic Spillane, whose seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1961 | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...world not in the process of becoming more vast, more close, more dazzling than Jehovah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passionate Indifference | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Dialogue with Jehovah. The plot is strung on the ancient Hebrew legend of the Lamed-Vov or 36 Just Men, who, although indistinguishable from their fellows, take unto themselves the collective grief of mankind: "If just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn, and humanity would suffocate with a single cry." So frozen with man's woes is the Just Man that sometimes when he rises to heaven, "God must warm him for a thousand years between his fingers before his soul can open itself to Paradise." Author Schwarz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book of Lamentations | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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