Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally we are told that this $20,000,000 loan is just hard-headed business--we loan them money to build up their mines and some war-damaged industries, and in return we get large supplies of Yugoslav-mined strategic materials. You can't pull the wool love the American businessman's eyes...
...according to Barth, "is He who according to Holy Scripture exists, lives, acts, makes Himself known to us in the work of His free love ..." But it is dangerous to think of God as nothing but unlimited power. "Perhaps you recall how, when Hitler used to speak about God, he called Him 'the Almighty.' . . . Holy Scripture never speaks of God's power, its manifestations and its victories, in separation from the concept of law." This law is to be found in God as Father-"the God who is in Himself love...
Twelfth Night (by William Shakespeare; produced by Roger Stevens) has its immortal virtues-speeches filled with fragrance, bewitching songs. In Viola it has a charming heroine; in Malvolio, "sick of self-love," a monumental pompous ass. To him, as a huffing spoilsport, is addressed one of Shakespeare's crispest queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" To him, by a frisking clown, is tossed some of Shakespeare's tersest wisdom: "There is no darkness but ignorance." And nowhere more than in Twelfth Night can a lovely moment suddenly leap...
...Shakespeare's part have conspired against Twelfth Night. Particularly in the theater, the strands of its complicated plot can come to seem like chains. With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure...
...Best of Intentions begins as Joe is planning a love affair with a girl he met at the opera. The problem is: how to get out of the house on Sunday without the whole family finding...