Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about a bank robbery in which the take includes 500,000 defective pound notes. (A Bank of England cashier named G. O. Dodd has signed them "Good God" by error.) Sam is accused and fired. A priest gets hold of the cash and distributes it to unwed pregnant women who "promise to stop it." Sam develops "delusions of grandeur, paranoia and schizophrenia." and decides that he is the world's greatest high jumper. Understandably. Saroyan suggests that "any reality must come from the beholder. After all, a madman's fantasies are the most real thing in the world...
...Pregnant Words & Symbolic Deeds. Western man, Niebuhr feels, is lost and disillusioned-not only about himself but about the things in which he once put his trust, such as nation and technology, in which the underdeveloped nations and the Russians are trusting today. "In the West the most sensitive, if not yet most, men are living in a great religious void; their half-gods are gone and the gods have not yet arrived." This, thinks Theologian Niebuhr, is true of men both in and out of seminaries and churches. The answer: a set of new religious symbols that are truly...
...phrases are worn out; they have become cliches." Mere retranslation of traditional terms-"Word of God." "redemption." "justification," "grace," "eternal life"-is not possible, says Niebuhr, without "the actualities" which people in another age knew intimately when they used these terms. What is needed is a "resymbolization in pregnant words and in symbolic deeds, like the new words of the Reformation and the Puritan movement and the Great Awakening, like the symbolic deeds of the Franciscans and the social gospelers...
With love, life can begin, and in Brink of Life, Bergman watches three pregnant women as they attempt to achieve birth (in the context, birth may symbolize an attempted rebirth in the spiritual sense). But nothing is born, and in The Magician Bergman examines the reason for the failure-lack of faith. His magician-hero, made up to resemble Christ, has supernatural powers, but he listens to rational objections, doubts himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence...
...works and that they can leave at any time during the questioning. Then he asks such questions as "Have you ever taken as much as $10 from a store?", "Have you ever stolen from your employer?" or, wary of the absentee problem among females applying for jobs, "Are you pregnant?" Devine and his partner Clayton Evans, 25, also give each other monthly lie detector tests...