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...state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner and the road warrior for the cause. They succeeded in getting conservative presidents elected, and boards began tilting rightward...
...cruelest imagined torments of hell once seemed not only very real but a perfectly legitimate form of punishment, since God himself had permitted and even approved the eternal fires. And with what a hunger for retribution did Dante identify each king or warrior he reported seeing in the Inferno, buried up to the eyes in rivers of blood. With what zeal did Bosch and Bruegel similarly portray malefactors being torn at by giant birds or skeletons. Yet the avenger himself was traditionally punished too. Orestes goes mad; Hamlet dies of poison; Captain Ahab ends in a tangle of rope dragged...
...published autobiography of Thomas L. Chadbourne, a wheeling-dealing corporation lawyer, claims that during the 1920s Chadbourne gave Smith cash and stock options worth $400,000. The motive was high-minded: the payments were designed to augment Smith's $10,000-a-year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later refused to support a subway-fare increase, which would have hugely added to the value of Chadbourne's mass-transit stock...
...Jerome Robbins for a hit ballet called Glass Pieces, has sold 115,000 copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In Cannes recently, Glass and two others shared the prize for Best Artistic Contribution for their work on Director Paul Schrader's new film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera based on Novelist Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, to be premiered in Holland in the spring...
...warrior star, however, has captured the imagination of many others. Says Tom Gehrels, an astronomer with the University of Arizona: "When I heard the theory, I knew in my heart it was right." Indeed, Gehrels immediately hopped on a westbound plane to try to persuade Muller to let him help search for the companion. But Muller's own telescopic dissection of 5,000 stars in the Northern Hemisphere that are candidates for being Nemesis was already under way, and there was no need for Gehrels' help. So far, Muller has photographed nearly all the target stars once and is preparing...