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...whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported social realism from the novel and invented modern prose drama (A Doll's House, Ghosts). Then he passed on to the great pagan passion plays of his old age (The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf...
...abundance as man is allowed-if they want it. For Judaism is at the very heart of the star, its burning center. Christianity forms the "rays" of the star, or "the eternal way" toward its heart. Like Rosenzweig, Jews need not convert to Christianity in order to find God; pagans do. Jews are a timeless people, apart from history, overarching eternity as God's Chosen to guard the truth. Christianity, acting in history, is the pagan's path out of time into eternity...
...modern television possible; after a long illness; in Salt Lake City. Farnsworth was 15 when he formulated his theory for transmitting pictures electronically. Then he set about developing individual components. In 1927, he filed for the patent on a complete television system. Early financial backing came from James J. Pagan, a San Francisco banker, who studied Farnsworth's idea and remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea, but someone ought to put money into...
...time of great unrest and turmoil in ancient Judea. Restive under the rule of pagan Rome, the Jews of Palestine in the 1st century A.D. repeatedly defied their conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned...
...time they near their goal-Gabriola, an island on Canada's West Coast -they have been transformed into a pair of unearthly representatives of a pagan diaspora. And not too subtly. The fire and water that drove them from their previous homes are invested with stage magic. Old men mutter about the qualities of wood as if spirits lived in the grain. Llewelyn feels foreshadowings in everything from snatches of movie dialogue to highway billboards. Symbols wash up out of the sea and appear...