Word: marked
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Captain Paul Sawyer and junior Mark Culhane are the scoring leaders for Dartmouth, while freshman Jim Jankowski has been erratic in goal. And in case it slipped your mind, Dartmouth frustrated Harvard in the season-opener, 5-4, on a Don O'Brien overtime tally...
Kermode used examples from the New Testament to illustrate his thesis. In particular, he stressed the importance of stories intercollated in other stories in the books of Mark and Matthew...
Kermode said that traditional commentary has explained the story of Herod and Salomi as merely filler between the departure of the 12 apostles in Mark's verse eight and their return in verse 30. "This shows a great lack of understanding by commentators: they just want to save they task from its complexity," he said...
Peter's recognition of Jesus as the Messiah is the climax of the book of Mark, Kermode said, but it is obscured in a "core of secrecy. We are unwilling to accept mystery and leave it at that, and yet our literary interpretations are concerned with finding a large abstract secrecy...
...Mark Twain described this wasteland following his visit to the Holy Land in 1867: 'Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies...Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost its ancient grandeur and has become a pauper village...the wonderful temple which was the pride and glory of Israel is gone...