Word: resist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick are as crisp as the script...
...apartments. Here was a leader who asserted that the Koran could be made compatible with "Arab socialism," who emancipated women, started birth control, planned the Aswan Dam, produced nuclear energy, renounced Egypt's claim to the Sudan, and even sought a Palestine settlement. Yet even Nasser could not resist the temptation of turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge on Israel. Russia chose to arm the fantasy. In the end, Nasser bluffed and blustered himself into war and defeat, and mortgaged his country...
Each of the four statements on reconciliation in society closes with a formal religious sanction. "Congregations, individuals, or groups of Christians who exclude, dominate, or patronize their fellowmen, however subtly, resist the Spirit of God and bring contempt on the faith which they profess...Although nations may serve God's purposes in history, the church which identifies the sovereignty of any one nation or any one way of life with the cause of God denies the Lordship of Christ and betrays its calling...A church that is indifferent to poverty, or evades responsibility in economic affairs, or is open...
...church has used strong language: "...resist the Spirit of God and bring contempt on the faith...denies the Lordship of Christ and betrays its calling...makes a mockery of reconciliation and offers no acceptable worship...
...When he chooses wrong and has departed, Portia points up the racial slur in her tag-line, "Let all of his complexion choose me so." As for the Prince of Arragon, James Valentine makes him a heavily accented and logorrheicninny; and, when he goes, Portia just can't resist making fun of his Castilian accent. She should talk! Much later, when she is identified by Lorenzo through her voice only, her comment-- "He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,/By the bad voice." -- is far from the witticism she intends. Her confidante Nerissa, as Marian Hailey plays...