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...forbid that we should have violence. God forbid that we should disturb the slumber of rational discourse on Capitol Hill. God forbid that we should...
...hardly the all-American childhood, full of Girl Scout meetings and slumber parties. "To other people, being Judy Garland's daughter meant that either I led the glamorous, spoiled life of a movie star's child or that I was a poor little waif, a vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with...
Legal Battles. In the 30 years Kay has been with Gund, the company's biggest hits have been a floppy slumber dog called "Regal Beagle" and a series of Walt Disney stuffed toys. But this -"it's incredible," moans the 54-year-old laugh tycoon. To keep on top of orders, Kay has stopped commuting to his home in The Bronx and has taken a hotel room near his shabby Fifth Avenue showroom. "It's impossible," he adds. "It's just like a tornado...
...reaffirming the past. On the other hand, Dr. Dale Moody, a Baptist theologian currently teaching at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, believes that the church is being deliberately dinned out of its complacency: "God is giving the church a good shaking today. With his left hand he disturbs her slumber with the noise of social revolution, and with his right hand he rings the bell calling for relevance to such pressing social problems as race, poverty and war. A polarity develops in every denomination of Christianity between those calling for old-fashioned soul-winning and those new styles of social...
...been generations since Gibbon's masterpiece was regarded as definitive. The Greek scholar Richard Person once wittily observed: "Nor does his humanity ever slumber unless when women are ravished or the Christians persecuted." Today's scholars are more likely to complain that Gibbon was weak on the Byzantine and that he was most responsive to Romans like the Augustans, who resembled himself: "Urbane, accomplished, and occasionally a trifle pompous," as Peter Quennell put it in a Gibbon profile. Despite his limits, unpredictably, erratically, marvelously, Gibbon and Rome did go together. "Gibbon is a kind of bridge," Thomas Carlyle...