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...Executive distracted from the pursuit of the war by a wife (Sada Thompson) far gone in status panic-running up huge bills, insulting society ladies, publicly accusing her husband of infidelity, even being investigated for disloyalty by a congressional committee. Lincoln's nobility in the face of this passeth all understanding, despite a canny, understated performance by Hal Holbrook...
...rulers of old Jerusalem, who have essayed the rule making only because the churches, which jealously share jurisdiction over the Christian holy places, are so touchy about privilege and eminence that an impartial arbitrator is required to solve their disputes. So much for the peace that passeth understanding in Jerusalem, the golden city that has witnessed 20 centuries of conflict between the zealots of the Almighty...
...generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever...
...committed to his philosophy than in the last days before his death-a death that, as Cory describes it, had some of the majesty of Socrates'. He was racked with pain from cancer of the stomach, unable to eat or drink. When Cory murmured about "the peace that passeth all understanding," the old rationalist shot back: "If it passeth all understanding, it's simply nothing. I have no faith in a blind, cosmic feeling of peace." In his last moments, Cory asked him if he was suffering. "He replied in a voice so small that it seemed...
...chapel, only the wind's home." But at the deepest point of despair, the rumble of thunder brings promise of rain to the waste land. The poem ends with the Hindu incantation, like the first shower of long-looked-for rain, shantih, shantih, shantih, meaning: "The Peace which passeth understanding...