Word: deed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the dread black cap, Judge Edmund Davies slowly told Podola: "You have been convicted on evidence of the most compelling character and certainty of the capital murder* of a police officer by shooting him down in the prime of his manhood. For that foul and terrible deed but one sentence is prescribed, and that I now pronounce...
Penance, wrote Father Lamera, should be both "afflictive and curative." He suggests four kinds of afflictive penances: 1) voluntary mortification, such as early rising, giving up smoking; 2) cheerful acceptance of suffering, such as hunger, humiliation, a bad cold; 3) doing a good deed; 4) "a somewhat burdensome prayer or a visit to the Holy Sacrament on one's knees." Father Lamera would adapt "curative" penances to individual weaknesses: e.g., for the proud. "You will not talk about yourself...
...feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history hitherto...
...astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke and went out. "I come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering--it has not yet reached the ears of man.... This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars--and yet they have done it themselves." Die Frohliche Wissenshaft...
Marilyn Rawlins gave the first night's most finished performance in the pivotal role of Rosa; she needs only a bit more "weight" and presence to fore-shadow the grandeur of her deed at the climax. Why anyone saw fit to dye Miss Rawlin's honest red hair to black, however, as well as fitting her out in a costume and coiffure that belong to the Vassar cocktail hour rather than an innocent Italian peasant girl--is quite beyond me; one hopes that it will be soon corrected...