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...Lower Depths. Akira Kurosawa's Japanization of the classic proletarian comedy by Maxim Gorky boils with demonic energy and rocks with large, yea-saying laughter...
...Lower Depths. Akira Kurosawa's Japanization of the classic proletarian comedy by Maxim Gorky boils with demonic energy and rocks with large, yea-saying laughter...
...impossible to say whether they succeeded or failed. Yet it is a fact of politics that individual hopes ride on expedient fusions like this peace march; one must delve into its complex purposes and distinguish the dominant from the variant and the deviant in order to say yea or nay with more than prejudice...
...revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself-Yea, all which it inherit-shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep...
...Junto," an intellectual self-improvement club of like-minded Philadelphians, and brought out the first three of the famed Poor Richard's Almanacks. Franklin also set down his basic religious outlook, a kind of deism that made him a logical child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close to believing that whatever is is good. In "Articles of Belief" he offers up a characteristically benign prayer, "O Creator, O Father, I believe that thou art Good, and that thou art pleas'd with the Pleasure of thy Children...