Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refrains of most of our "socalled" gospel hymns are filled with needless repetition. As Dr. Wiant says, they "dupe" and "dope" us and are "sentimental and good for nothing." The type of tune found in many of these hymns is used outside the church for dancing and for popular love songs, and is hardly appropriate for expressing our Christian joy and striving for perfection...
...Taste for Shot. In writing of Jones's shoreside activities, Historian Morison is sometimes nearly as lubberly as was Paul Jones himself, e.g., he is positively precious in describing Jones's squalid love life, once wonders romantically about a Jones bastard: "Did the little fellow die in infancy? Or did he grow up and fight Napoleon under the English flag, or what?" But Samuel Eliot Morison has no peer in writing of war at sea, and nowhere is he finer than in his description of the meeting on Sept. 23, 1779 of Bonhomme Richard and H.M.S. Serapis...
...white folks have no pass, and it is one of Author Dermout's virtues that she can suggest this life without dragging the reader through kitchens and bedrooms. There is a story of sorts. The small girl, with the awareness of the very young, sees a disastrous love affair founder, and she watches as white and native lives run courses that to her are not so much meaningless as mysterious. Already the Indonesians are rising in the first stages of rebellion: already the whites are grimly aware that force is not forceful enough...
...again, he comes home to find her naked and asleep. But even though Smaragthi's face and figure dominate the small fishing village of Skala, she has to share a sensuousness that in the end is bigger and sweeter than she. For Novelist Myrivilis is not just in love with his heroine-he is in love with Greece...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has sent her to her calling, is too antiseptic to come alive. The story, though, is a natural, and the camera work in Africa dazzlingly beautiful...