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Great literature, secular and religious, is often the basis for blather...
...From the treasury he sprang $16.5 million to build old couples' homes and aid 63 private high schools across the province. (Twenty of the schools never had received grants before because Duplessis enigmatically decided to ignore them.) Affably, Paul Sauvé set out to woo Quebec newsmen, who often feuded with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly began to use his talent for delegating authority and work, much in contrast to his predecessor. Summed up Le Devoir: "Under Duplessis, there were 20. ministers looking...
Occasionally, as in the military exercise known as Bo Odori, in which sticks, sickles and wooden swords were flourished in ritualistic confusion, the dance had an authentic feel. But more often, Takarazuka's "musical bridge" seemed a one-way street that fell 20 years short of its goal. After watching an animal turn called Shan Shan Uma, in which two dancers represented the front and hindquarters of a horse, the New York Daily News's John Chapman commented: "I kept muttering to myself 'Shan Shan Uma on the Rillera.' This helped some...
...considered a place of punishment or torment. Gradually, the idea developed that there was a difference between the life of the righteous and the life of the wicked in Sheol. The part where the wicked dwelt was called Gehenna, and the part where the righteous dwelt was called Paradise. Often translated "Hell" in the New Testament, Gehenna is really derived from the Valley of Hinnom, outside the city of Jerusalem, which was notorious as the place where fires burned to consume refuse and as the scene of ancient child sacrifice...
...wondered if anyone longing for redemption has ever really been drawn by the prospect of continuing to subsist through an infinite temporal series--no one thirsted for "eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...