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Professor Arthur N. Holcombe took over from Professor Ropes, becoming my faculty adviser in government. He was a fine man, a down-to-earth sort that everybody liked. Why I later took Professor Kirsopp Lake's half-year course in the New Testament escapes me. But it was a good course given by a reverent man. One day a classmate of ours came to the lecture straight from a fraternity hazing. He sat in the front row, and his garb and painted face so outraged Professor Lake that he dismissed the class without even starting his lecture...
MacLeish, one of America's greatest poets, confronts The Question of human existence, exploring the outer limits of love, pain, faith, endurance. He miraculously brings to the stage the Bible's undramatic, intellectual Book of Job. By metamorphosing the Old Testament's prosperous landowner into a New England millionaire named J.B., MacLeish makes Job's bizzare ordeal relevant to a twentieth-century audience. J.B. challenges you, compelling you to feel, to think, to ponder the same mysteries that torment MacLeish's modernday Job: why do we suffer? are we the victims of an indifferent universe and a cold, complacent...
...still debatable whether "the exhibit of perfect" has been a success or a failure. And indeed, it is also a testament to the idea that the success or failure of such an exhibit has nothing at all to do with the content being or not being there, that the suggestion of an art exhibit will suffice in place of a real one. Is it outrageous that an artist can, by simply announcing that he is exhibiting something, make others around him believe that this is what he is really doing? Some are bound to think so. Some guests who attended...
...come to pass that the Bible will be recognized as a dubious guide to the exercise of power. The Bible is, of course, President Carter's basic manual. Were he more inclined to the thunder of the Old Testament, the U.S. might have a better global position. But Carter runs to the New Testament, wherein the meek inherit the world, turn the other cheek, love enemies, are first by being last, and find strength made perfect in weakness...
...diary of Toffler's nighttime fears and Newsweek clippings. But there is an explanation. A decade ago, Alvin Toffler wrote a book with a clever computer-letters cover called Future Shock. And even if that effort was not immediately heralded as better than Revelation and installed in the New Testament, it was readable and interesting, an examination of the horrors, large and small, that lay ahead...