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...poems Hardy suggests the way the world looked to him: a primeval landscape dotted with "wind-warped" thorn, where a hawk circles above a hedgehog in a permanent Celtic twilight. Yet, somewhere on the far horizon of his stories, a tiny solitary figure can usually be found: a latter-day Adam, as lost as on the first day after the Fall-or, more likely, an Eve. The storms Hardy stages on his heath are nothing compared with the tempests of sexual passion that tear at the hearts of these lonely wanderers among the thorns: Bathsheba of Far from the Madding...
That conservative politics dominates the Bible Belt proves, of course, not only the potential of Christianity for fueling radical change, but also its proven capacity to support the status quo--an ability demonstrated, indeed, since the Holy Roman Empire, when the Church turned from thorn-in-the-side to a flying buttress of the state, legitimizing each of the degradations the powerful have historically devised for the weak. America is no exception--our rulers have always been good to Christianity, and in return the church has supported the traditional distributions of power and privilege...
Lane correctly notes that the occupation of the West Bank is a political and moral thorn in the side of Israel, but he does not give us ways it can be removed...
...December earned about two-thirds of that sum this year, even though the author had become a Nobel laureate in the interim. E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake (1980) got one-third of the $1.85 million paid for his Ragtime in 1975. Colleen McCullough's 1977 blockbuster, The Thorn Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same fate: their books were withdrawn from paperback auction because the five-figure bids were insultingly low. There was only one bidder for Gael...
...somehow been misplaced on the edge of the African continent. It was the headquarters from which Gaddafi directed the global activities of his terrorist network. The Libyan leader himself had assigned those who went out from the villa to do his bidding their leitmotif: "Everything that puts an infected thorn in the foot of our enemies is good...