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With its space messiah hero, its understanding of ecology and its references to mind-expanding drugs, Dune found a large and appreciative audience during the mid-'60s. It was a book the young readers made, largely through word of mouth-"far out," "mind blowing," etc. Dune won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most coveted annual awards. Sales eventually hit nearly 2 million copies. But Dune was only the beginning of a long-running drama, the first part of which is now being filmed in North Africa. In 1969 Herbert published Dune Messiah, which...
...Jews at Masada were not similar to the people at Guyana. Eleazar and his followers could see their enemy below. He made no pretense to be anything but a military leader. Eleazar was not followed as a Messiah; he did not prevent his people from leaving nor did he turn them into slaves...
Even the heroic Beadle, the ECAC's leading scorer who is called "the messiah" by the locals, missed an open net with ten minutes remaining, thus symbolizing Northeastern's frustration. The Huskies, in one period earlier this season, scored eight goals. Not tonight...
...Pops Conductor John Williams led a choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television. Said Conductor Margaret Hillis to an earnest cast, as an all-volunteer, 100-piece orchestra (aged twelve to 74) tuned up: "Handel would be delighted...
confine their mutual encounters to essential party business and seem almost to have difficulty uttering each other's names. Rabin accuses Peres of being willing to wreck the Labor Party for his own ambitions. Scoffs Peres about Rabin: "Our party does not have the concept of the messiah...