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Writers in every era have remade Jesus in the image that suited their personal or literary needs. In Milton's Paradise Regained, Christ is an intellectual who disdains "the people" as "a herd confus'd, a miscellaneous rabble who extol things vulgar." The 19th century skeptic Swinburne had a character say of Jesus, "O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath." D.H. Lawrence equated the Resurrection with Jesus' awakening sexual desire. In the 1960s, S.G.F. Brandon saw the Nazarene as a sympathizer of the 1st century's Zealot guerrillas...
...employment, he pointed out that Hungary, one-third its pre-War size, had the same number of Government employes as before the War. ''However," he continued, "steps have been taken gradually to diminish the number of Government employes without wholesale discharges, because that would have caused great confus:on and destitution...
John tugg'd at Cabe; while thus confus'd they...
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