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...only real laugh in the entire first act comes from an old comic saw--a mother walking in on a stranger in bed with her daughter--which the weary audience, finally seizing upon something it can recognize, greets with a feeling very much akin to relief...
Boyish-looking, fast-talking Callaway, 48, is no stranger to controversy. Member of a Georgia textile family whose fortune has been estimated at $40 million, he holds a commission from West Point, served three years in Korea and is a former regent of the University of Georgia. He was originally a states' rights Democrat. But he bolted the party to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, and was elected to Congress as a Republican. In the House he fought against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and most other Great Society programs...
...American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made an example of the Good Samaritan because of his loving moral conduct. And in a parable, Jesus told followers to find him in the hungry, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned-in situations where moral response is called...
...GREAT DEAL of highly respected science fiction that has made its way into mainstream culture would also fare poorly on film, including "classics" like Frank Herbert's Dune and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. (How would you portray "groking?" Who would accept a giant sandworm in a serious film?) Some of the finest science fiction on film was specifically written for that medium. Ironically, Ellison himself is responsible for some of the better television screenplays: "Soldier" on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone, a chilling preview of a war-wracked future through the eyes of a genetically engineered...
...dean came to Harvard 11 years ago, a stranger from the midwest, and after one year on the medical faculty became its dean. In turn, his major achievements have been focused more on the Medical School in its societal context than on the academic affairs of his faculty...