Word: resurrectione
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The "good chance" may seem a very modest resurrection for so much suffering. Like the old Armenians, Arlen is making another wager: on stoicism as the proper response to despair. It is both an honorable bet and a long shot - the only arguable portion of a unique and grieving book...
Why the Chinese Look? The reopening of East-West trade was a major impetus. Commune-style jackets imported from the People's Republic caught the fancy of the young in Paris two years ago as an alternative to the standard jeans and T shirts. "For the past ten years...
Mehring purchases his farm as a tax write-off, but it gradually grows on him -and on the reader. Soon the African earth and its plowman conspire to give the novel its center and its soul. The lyricism cannot last. Mehring cracks up principally because the author must punish the...
An interesting idea for a movie, and well-cast. But in the execution the idea gets lost, and estranged from what happens on the screen. So an interpretation of the film is a faintly boring afterthought: in the theater it's clear that significant things are going on, but precisely...
Meanwhile, preaching and pastoring are handled by two disciples who work on the General Motors line. At first the leaders expected Gill's resurrection immediately. Disappointed, they found the reason for Gill's tardiness in the church members' failure to achieve "sinless perfection"; the members bow their...