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...achieves distinction in a series of brief sermons and reflections on the nature of God and the good that ought to make many an orthodox pulpit-pounding clergyman blush in envy. Yet the meaning of The Bell is muffled in final ambiguity, as the colony goes under in a tidal wave of newspaper scandal. With its strange but oddly exciting characters, its limpid prose, its sly wit and its ethical insight, The Bell unquestionably tolls, but it is never clear for whom and for what...
...half brother Einar (Kirk Douglas), who is Ragnar's legitimate son and heir. One day Eric flies his hawk at Einar's face, and the beast tears out one of his eyes-a scene that is especially effective in Technicolor. In reprisal, Eric is chained in a tidal pool to be eaten alive by crabs, but he calls on Odin, and the tide goes...
September, 1929: The country was riding high on a tidal wave which was soon to break hard and sweep away the Big Rock Candy Mountain. That was the month the Class of 1933, nearly one thousand strong, came to Cambridge and Harvard College. President Lowell welcomed the Class to the College, and then followed some serious talk by Delmar Leighton ("Choices of Studies for the Freshman Year") and by an assistant professor of History, Charles H. Taylor ("Freshman Course Requirements...
Antony gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and other conquerors would gladly have given a Cleopatra to get Cyprus. For the last 2,000 years, tidal waves of conquest have continued to sweep over the island's pebbled shores. Cyprus has been ruled by medieval Knights Templar, Venetians, Turks and British. By 1953, when Author Lawrence (Justine) Durrell (TIME, Aug. 26) arrived in Cyprus in search of a writer's low-cost retreat, the Greek Cypriots (four-fifths of the population) were scrawling their own historic handwriting on the village walls: "Enosis and only enosis" (union...
...Theosophical Society has unloosed a "tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggery-pook on the superstitious suburbs of the West." This is an unwarranted attack on an honorable institution, considerably older and more stable than TIME...