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...20th century have produced a more and more widespread belief that, confronted by such things as bureaucracy, modern war and concentration camps, man is necessarily reduced to pliable victim, meaningless cipher, hopeless bundle of conditioned reflexes. Solzhenitsyn, however, fought the Nazis for four years. He has endured slave camps and near death from cancer. His experiences seem to have produced a strong belief in the existence of an inextinguishable sense of justice in human society and-despite the power and prevalence of evil-a spark of absolute conscience in the individual. To survive as human beings, his characters make...
...lost. In Mark's Gospel, when John the Baptist talks about the Messiah as "he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image and orders people to worship it when they hear the sounds of "horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp," Taylor offers instead a touch of Sousa: "When the band strikes up." Despite such lapses, Taylor's Bible is easy...
...story fiber-glass statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the Salvation Gardens! Thrill to gladiator fights in the Colosseum! Climb the Tower of Babel! Disappear into the belly of Jonah's Whale! Pet the animals on Noah's Ark! Ride a slave barge across the Sea of Galilee! Visit Heaven and Hell! All this and more for only $6 a head...
...this convivial atmosphere, even the most confirmed addicts have found new strength. "I was a slave to tobacco. I'd drive ten miles to find a pack of cigarettes if necessary," says Jean Maisonobe. "But I've stopped smoking. I can hardly believe it myself...
...cynicism has little power in Magog's private life. He is an emotional slave to Maire, Gog's promiscuous French-born wife. She favors him at her whim, disappearing out of his life for years at a time. All Earth Mother types cause him pain, including Rosa, one of twin girls out of Maire by Gog or possibly Magog himself. In the face of such confusions, Magog's blowsy mother Merry (Old England?) asserts: "We aren't a family, dear; we're just a blood group...