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...Name Is Ivan. This extraordinary Russian film tells the story of the tender relationship between twelve-year-old Ivan, who is a spy behind the Nazi lines, and the Russian army officers who respect his bravery but worry over his lost childhood. Director Tarkovsky not only dares to show the Soviet hero as an individual troubled with doubts and fears but, even more surprisingly, also uses Christian symbolism in a most un-Soviet fashion...
...chapter. In copious detail, James records the soul-searchings of religious figures like Luther and St. Theresa and Bunyan, and of not so obviously religious ones like Tolstoy and Walt Whitman and Carlyle. No type of religious experience, however humble or bizarre, is excluded; James treats them all with tender indulgence. The majestic agonies of Augustine are followed by the fussy gropings of an alcoholic. The founder of the Quakers, George Fox, has a vision of blood flowing through the streets of Lichfield (where Diocletian slaughtered 1,000 Christians), and strides barefoot through the city, crying: "Woe to the bloody...
...Name Is Ivan. This extraordinary Russian film tells the tender and compelling story of the relationship between twelve-year-old Ivan, who is a spy behind the Nazi lines, and the Russian army officers who respect his bravery but worry over his loss of innocence. Director Tarkovsky not only dares to show the Soviet hero as an individual troubled with doubts and fears, but, even more surprisingly, also uses Christian symbolism in a most un-Soviet fashion...
Never were visitors treated with more tender care. While they get used to their new surroundings, the oryxes are kept in semi-isolation and watched constantly by zoo officials. All food and water equipment is sterilized, and the few visitors admitted to the enclosures are made to dunk their shoes in an antiseptic solution to keep out infection. To protect the oryxes from unfamiliar thorns, all cacti except giant saguaros have been removed, and the thorns of the saguaros have been clipped to a height above the reach of an oryx. Every day the zoo fills out a sheet...
...ably presented recipes for meals that occur in literature, such as the bake meat pies that Geoffrey Chaucer's franklin loved and the boeuf en daube that was the special triumph of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse-"It was rich; it was tender; it was perfectly cooked...