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...deathbed, is the monument to a petition that was not granted." This, Lewis suggests, is inevitable: "In our ignorance we ask what is not good for us or for others, or not even intrinsically possible." Yet God's silence does not necessarily contradict Jesus' injunction: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall receive them" (Mark 11: 24). For, the author maintains, "such promises about prayer with faith refer to a degree or kind of faith which most believers never experience...
People enjoy tragedy because they are culprits, Eric Bentley contended last . They identify the guilt of a tragic hero with their own. "In tragedy we the most single-minded and complete identification with guilt of any art soever...
...Bible story (7 Kings 10:1-13) the personal relation between Solomon (Brynner) and Sheba (Gina Lollobrigida) is mercifully accomplished in a clause: "And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, what soever she asked . . ." In the film version this statement is generously translated into two hours of full-color, wide-screen lust, in which all of Solomon's love affairs are lumped into one. In the case of Solomon (700 wives, 300 concubines) this makes quite a lump, but Lollobrigida does her breasty best to fill the part...
Fault for the lack of an audience does not lie with that traditional scapegoat. "Harvard apathy." It exists because local debates provide no audience appeal what-soever. By keeping to the old system of four speeches and two rebuttals, the debaters have minimized one of debating's most interesting features, the genuine clash of ideas. And by arguing the same subject time and time again during the year, they have reduced debating to the status of mental weight-lifting...
Everyone on the squad has been encouraged to practice the art, and it is pointed out that its cultivation vastly increases the value of an individual player. Almost all of the kickers prefer to place rather than drop kick. Coach Harlow says that he has no preference what-soever, but that almost all players come from prep and high schools trained in the former...