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...leaned back in his chair and ran his hand through his moderately long brown hair. He took a puff on his cigarette. "Probably," he answered finally. "I think I'll return to school and study education. But Christ, they really don't know how to teach up there...
...cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber, adding, "Christ was so namby-pamby about things...
...Cluny Lady with the Unicorn set is a relatively straightforward metaphor of the five senses, so that the mythic beast gazes at itself in a mirror to signify Sight. By contrast, the Cloisters' unicorn hunt is a highly complicated and frequently obscure allegory of the passion of Christ, mixed with references to courtly and profane love. But in each, a way of seeing reality that was both freshly direct and symbolic is embedded in a matrix of almost unbelievable formal beauty. Detail by detail, this is a show to be returned to and never to be exhausted. Robert Hughes
...have a few pastoral problems resulting from The Exorcist [Jan. 21]. My reply to the people who come to me is: "I'm sorry, but I just do not have time to believe in the Devil. All my time is taken up believing in Jesus Christ." This usually puts a little perspective in the discussion...
...After the Cultural Revolution," however, China almost became a land of peace and harmony, plenty of food and political unity. I termed these two eras B C R and A C R because these periods take on as much meaning for our East Asian neighbors as the birth of Christ does for most of the rest of the world...