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...Karl Barth of Switzerland, has consistently warned his fellow churchmen that God is a "wholly other" being, whom man can only know by God's self-revelation in the person of Christ, as witnessed by Scripture. Any search for God that starts with human experience, Barth warns, is a vain quest that will discover only an idol, not the true...
LOVING COUPLES. Another Swedish showpiece handsomely fashioned by Film-Star-turned-Director Mai Zetterling. Antimarriage, antisex, anti-men. Couples is a long, loving closeup of three young women who come to grief because of the vain, stupid, corrupt men they cannot...
...martyrs die in vain? Foxe thinks not. Great crowds gathered to see the burnings, and many were shaken to the depths by the shining faith of the victims and the bestial exertions of their executioners. As the century advanced, the crowds became more hostile to "the popish oppressours," and the cause of Protestantism so prospered that it became the state religion under Elizabeth, who at the suggestion of her bishops made a historic advance in the practice of religious toleration. The custom of burning heretics was abandoned in England. During the 17th century, most heretics were known as papists...
...mannerisms, and produces an awkward caricature of the Russian man of fashion, Gwyllum Evans, as the mayor, uses exaggerated pomposity and self-importance to produce a cynical caricature of a corrupt Russian official. And Maureen Fitzgerald fills out his pomposity in her portrayal of the mayor's domineering, vain, and dissatisfied wife. But the scene-stealing prize goes to Lynn Milgrim as the mayor's bovine daughter. Her acting includes more than the clomping, the staring, and the whining she does so well; she is a pretty girl who captures the humor and pathos of being plain. That...
...apparently intends to raise all kinds of hell on the other side of the camera. She begins by corralling three young women in a Stockholm maternity hospital and ends with a long, joyless look at a squalling baby. In the interim, she pours scorn over all the corrupt, vain, stupid and ineffectual males who have brought her heroines to grief...