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ZORBA THE GREEK. Memorably cast as the hero of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, Anthony Quinn tramples the grapes of wrath into the wine of life; Oscar-Winner Lila Kedrova is superb as a well-worn jade with a mighty thirst...
...dragging Christ down" to man's level miss the meaning of the Incarnation: that God in Christ did come down to man's level in everything except sin. The Gospels make it clear that Jesus was subject to all sorts of earthly temptations. "Hunger Jesus knew, and thirst. Death He endured. Pride, sloth, envy, desire for power, idolatry-all came close to Him and were overcome in favor of the virtues of which they are the perversions." Unless sex itself is interpreted as a sign of man's fallen nature, a view rejected by most modern theologians...
...difficult years in France, had returned to England with Jeanne's sister, Michelle. The separation tugged Jeanne in opposite directions, as indeed it still does: though she sympathizes with her mother, she is her father's child. The only English trait Moreau admits to is a thirst for tea with milk and sugar -as many as a dozen cups a day. "If I am ever killed," she says, "the police will find nothing but my identity papers and a small pool...
More Than Declarations. To cure such ills, economists believe, Britain must change the very milieu in which its economy operates, acquiring in the process a thirst for efficiency and modernization. The nation that sired the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago needs a new revolution. It can be nothing less than the sort of upheaval that Jean Monnet wrought in France, when in the mid-'50s he was able to shake his nation out of its sloppy practices. The Labor government has made only a beginning: it has offered tax rebates to companies that increase their trade abroad, given...
...against Birch, Barry and Bob," Young would say. "Goldwaterism, Taft Juniorism and extremism are all the same commodity." There was one other major factor: organized labor's thirst for revenge against the son of the man who co-sponsored the Taft-Hartley...