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...eyes of traditional church leaders, the popular authors who render angels into household pets, who invite readers to get in touch with their inner angel, or summon their own "angel psychotherapist," or view themselves as angels in training are trafficking in discount spirituality. And the churches are at a loss for a response. "What's troubling is that many religious leaders today acknowledge this but don't know what to do about it," admits George Landes, professor of Old Testament at Union Theological , Seminary. "They remain skeptical of the extravagance of angelology but don't know what...
What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...
...third double OT game in two weeks, the Crimson fought hard against 14th-ranked North-eastern but could not summon enough offense to beat the Huskies and ended up with a taste if its own medicine: a 2-1 OT defeat...
...series of coincidences, I turned up at a small reception in Sharon's honor the night after the announcement. I had no illusions that a hawk like Sharon would be at all pleased with the development. Yet I was eager to hear the rhetoric that Sharon would have to summon up to counter the agreement; it was, of course, a step so momentous and unexpected that it would be difficult to condemn out of hand...
...play depicts a group of students, professors and spouses from an American university touring England to see various improving plays. But social politics throw the innocent academic holiday into turmoil. The head of the English department has decided to fire an assistant professor, but can't summon the courage to tell him. A student accuses another professor of sexual harrassment. Romantic and platonic tension abounds...