Word: matthew
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These memories are not always happy, of course. One person may remember only that in the first grade he thought the books of the Bible were named after four odiously well-behaved Sunday school classmates named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. A second can still summon up the sense of majesty and magic that came upon first hearing of the escape from Egypt and the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. William Willimon, now teaching at Duke University's divinity school, fondly looks back on a "church that still believed that Christians were made, not born, and that...
...apprenticeship at Wright's Taliesin West. Yet for all the frailty of Arcosanti's finances, Soleri has been able to maintain out side interest in his project for a decade. The mystique of his eclectic, quasi-religious creed, cribbed from sages as different as Matthew Arnold and Teilhard de Chardin (whose name will be on a huge cloister planned for Arcosanti), draws hundreds of visitors from around the world to the site each year. Many of them come to try out as children of the Arcosanti dream...
...poetry thus remains a chiseled miniaturization, a little too simple, a shade too accessible. Graves persuasively argues that if the scholar and the poet had joined forces, if the homosexual and the classicist had agreed to cooperate, Housman would surely be ranked with such brooding Victorian giants as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy...
...fellow Missourian, Harry Vaughan, a shady military aide who consorted with influence peddlers throughout Truman's Administration. Ike had his Sherman Adams, Carter his Lance. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss," Dean Acheson told reporters in January 1950, citing as his precedent Matthew...
Some of us have sat through Mary Poppins more times than we care to remember, but the stunning animation never loses its novelty. The refreshing impish innocence of child actors Katie Dotrice and Matthew Garber reinvigorates the cynical and skeptical. Richard and Robert Sherman's score cuts across musical tastes and leaves the audience humming...