Word: samsonic
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...Samson, my knight...
...knit film and theater team, Von Sydow was the mysterious hero of The Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says Von Sydow, "I thought with horror of Cecil B. DeMille and such things as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. But when I saw the script, I decided that the role of Jesus is absolutely not a religious clich...
...antiquity, says Graves, some mushrooms went by the nickname of "little foxes." This sets the stage for one of his brazenly assured and highly speculative exegeses of Biblical texts. It is highly unlikely, argues Graves, that Samson caught 300 real foxes, set their tails afire and turned them loose to burn the cornfields of the Philistines. What he probably did was to arm 300 soldiers with flaming torches and inflame the men with the mushroom wonder drug. When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines...
...have to let us go forward a few feet in a century." ¶I "Ahab [of Moby Dick] is only a rebel, not a Prometheus but rather like many a hero of early German sagas . . . capable of bursting asunder out of rage, and of playing the Samson unprovoked." ¶ "The German [scholar] insists, like so many children with their toys and first watches, on smashing the subject he is treating to see how it works." ¶"The overworked, driven person or class is seldom creative, while leisure, even wasteful leisure, may end creatively." ¶ "Goethe owed much...
...Amazing courage!" said the postmaster of Caldy later. "The sea was pounding with such force that the spray was flying across the island like a flock of sea gulls." And last week, when the storm was even higher. Father Abbot Samson Wicksteed, 36, a wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...