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...movement its current success. "Several (pro-creationist) bills were declared un- constitutional in the mid-seventies, so the creationists had to change their tactics. They're still what they always were--namely, pushing fundamentalist Christianity--but they realize the courts won't let them do that anymore. So now thay have this bogus argument: they say it has nothing to do with religion, that creationism isn't Christian, that it'a just a scientific alternative...
...First, thay have the talent and the experience to compete with any team in the nation. Second, this trip is their chance to prove...
Stoppard's protagonist George Riley is a middleaged inventor whose inventions, like a tape recorder thay plays "Rule Britannia" when the clock strikes twelve, never seem to grab the public's fancy. As a result, he lives off ten shillings a week provided by his rambunctious 18-year old daughter Linda, who works in Fancy Goods at Woolworth's. He refuses to collect unemployment compensation; that is for the masses, not for an inventor. With a new ten-bob note every "Meatless Saturday," George heads for the pub, where the locals indulge his fantasies. He is a man lost...
...geniuses... Tonight we play the work of these musical geniuses for a man who in his own realm is a genius..." And then, for 45 minutes the great religious homages of the masters, "And the Glory of the Lord shall be revealed," "And he shall purify," "I know thay my redeemer liveth on the earth," building to the Alleluia chorus, and the crowd of 600 on its feet for the climax "And glory will reign forever and ever...
KILLING THE MONSTER is also sanctioned by the Church. The triumph of Britain's Hammar horror films is that thay exploit the connection between aggression, sex, and religion. Each blow of that long, hard stake into the writhing female vampire's bosom practically reverberates with church bells. Perhaps unintentionally, these movies make it easy to see how poor, repressed Puritans could have burned men and women at the stake for witchcraft. Chances are, we would have done the same...