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...letters John Middleton Murry, is to deny the divinity of Christ and reject most Christian dogma, but to cling to Jesus Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan way, at worst blasphemous and sentimental, self-made religions are immune to true-false tests, and their devotees usually ignore the irony implicit in one of the play titles of Pirandello: Right You Are, if You Think...
...mission schoolteacher whose sawed-off front teeth indelibly record his pagan tribal upbringing, Nyerere views federation as a far better solution to Africa's problems than fragmented independence. "The proliferation of independent states in Africa means a waste of manpower and money," he says. "It means weak economies and delays in development, and it will also mean the weakening of African influence in world affairs...
...Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The author writes of a nymph and a satyr in London, of all places; his pagan first novel is in praise of Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go around...
...Virgin Spring (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's beautifully filmed, holy if horrible Gothic myth in which good and evil, Christian and pagan powers collaborate in the continuous nativity of love...
...Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The author writes of a nymph and a satyr in London, of all places; his pagan first novel is in praise of Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go around...