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...Testament miracles are quite different. Instead of earthquakes and lightning, the immobilizing of heavenly bodies and the annihilation of cities, Jesus changes water into wine, gives sight to the blind, feeds multitudes with an armful of fishes and loaves. Christ's miracles proceed, as it were, from a creative force revealing itself in life, rather than impinging on life to make men stare...
When British Garage Owner Arthur Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley...
...attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner. The whole play takes place in 1916-17, and the stage action centers on Cordelia's engagement and marriage to Tobacco Heir Angier Duke. Angier, seemingly a weak and timid mouse, slowly emerges as a tough little rooster with a mind-and a body-of his own. And Angier's sharp-tongued Southern mother seems at times less like a North Carolina Duke than an Alabama Bankhead...
...carrying gold crashes on top of The Mountain just as winter is setting in, little brother begs big brother to guide him up the mountain so that he can loot the plane, and the passengers too. Big brother indignantly refuses. "You want to go up The Mountain, within the sight of God, so that you can pick the pockets of dead people?" Nevertheless, when little brother threatens to go alone, big brother decides to do for love what he would not do for money. In the language of symbol: Good would never have got going if it had not been...
Representative as it may be, the U.N. in action is rarely an inspiring sight. From their birth, both the Security Council and the General Assembly have inevitably possessed in magnified form all the vices of any legislature-the wordiness, the apparent remoteness from reality, the outbursts of hypocritical indignation, and, above all. the endlessly reiterated statements for the record. Snapped U.S Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, after a recent attack on the U.S. delivered by burly Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov: "Having been here almost four years and heard the speeches of the late Mr. Vishinsky, of Mr. Gromyko. Mr. Zorin...