Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the similes are familiar, e.g., The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who has taken a little leaven and has hidden it in dough and has made large loaves of it. Whoever has ears let him hear. But others have a surprising new emphasis, like the saying which immediately follows the above and seems to indicate that one can lose one's chance to enter the Kingdom through ignorance: The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road...
...similar theme occurs in conjunction with a familiar biblical echo: The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of Life, and he will live.For many who are first shall become last and they shall be come a single one . . . When you make the two one, you shall become sons of Man, and when you say: "Mountain, be moved," it will be moved...
Christians will treasure many of these sayings for their restatements of familiar themes (It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows, and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters), as well as for their beauty and ring: Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until the world is afire...
...once designed a kind of Orwellian prison called the panopticon, a jail building meant to provide warders with a view into the cells. It was never executed, but audiences have enjoyed panopticonic vision for years. Countless films and TV plays have made the state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing...
...there are worth while things is this show, a few engaging works here and there which reveal new or accustomed brilliance in the styles of major moderns. A Mondrian Composition in his familiar pure style looks as neat and as pleasing as the calm pictures of his seventeenth-century fellow country man, De Hooch...