Word: repents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ervil claimed credit for the death of the "impostor and false prophet," but he failed to lure any followers from the community that his brother had founded. From San Diego, Ervil issued warnings to the townsfolk of Los Molinos to repent, but few listened. Then, on the night after Christmas in 1974, Ervil's disciples roared through the community in two trucks, tossing Molotov cocktails into the adobe huts and shooting people as they fled into the dusty street. Two were killed and a dozen wounded...
...THIS WAY of getting even impresses us as cynical, Malle certainly helps the decadence along. When the thief runs into his family priest during his getaway, one suspects he might repent. No need to, though, because the good curate turns out to be a master crook himself. The hypocrisy of it all sounds funny, but Malle's somber colors and slow pace stop the irony like a wad of lint in our throats. This should be a black humor giggle-fest, but nobody is laughing...
...Washington to defend. One difficulty is the nature of the New Yorkers themselves. Colonel Knox, a Bostonian, has described them as "magnificent in their pride and conceit, which is inimitable; in the want of principle, which is prevalent; in their Toryism, which is insufferable, and for which they must repent in dust and ashes...
...religion that spiritual questions are cloaked in secular terms like "national purpose." Thus discussion of public policy is "floundering in moral evasiveness and mendacity." Neuhaus scorns the "vulgar anti-Americanism" of many intellectuals and says that because they are divorced from the American experience, they feel no need to repent personally of the nation's sins...
...This is particulars evident in his characterizations. Beatrice and Lucretia are unquestionably human, but the Count is more of an mearnation of an evil force. He is a myth-like figure and like the gods of classical mythology, he feels no guilt for his malice. If anyone is to repent for his acts, he reasons at must be God, for God made him what...