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...called the notion of putting up a memorial to God a "semantic blunder" because it "speaks of God in the past tense." Christianity Today, a conservative Protestant biweekly, said that while it would welcome "a recognition of the historical Christian roots of the nation," the idea of a monument to a generalized God should be dropped...
...rice piled up at the village mill for lack of transport. Viet Cong cadres took over the schools, charged taxes-500 piasters on each of Phumy's thatch-roofed houses, plus eleven pounds of rice from each family per month. They also erected a 15-ft.-high concrete monument to Communism at the village gate...
...drawn water from filthy canals). Inhabitants flocked back to the village in droves, and within a week the streets swarmed with mobs of children, eagerly accepting Life Savers from U.S. advisers and schoolbooks distributed by the province chief. With the Khanh takeover, things brightened further; the Viet Cong monument has been repainted as a government monument, and walls have been plastered with propaganda slogans, including a poem: "I am a girl of the countryside. If you follow the Viet Cong, I will never love...
...like Gold Dust twins. "We are of the same generation," the 38-year-old Zeffirelli would say, "and we see things in the same light." That meant seeing Falstaff, quite uniquely, as a tragedy-an expression of absurdity, an old man's revenge. "This is Verdi's monument to the ungenerosity of people," said Zeffirelli of Verdi's last opera and his only comedy.* "It really isn't funny...
Worst May Be Best. God may not always appear to take notice; "every war, every famine or plague, almost every deathbed, is the monument to a petition that was not granted." This, Lewis suggests, is inevitable: "In our ignorance we ask what is not good for us or for others, or not even intrinsically possible." Yet God's silence does not necessarily contradict Jesus' injunction: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall receive them" (Mark 11: 24). For, the author maintains, "such promises about prayer with faith refer...