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...players said the trip was successful because of both increasing confidence in their own ability and a slightly easier schedule than in the past. Passarella also suggested that the Blue-Gray Classic in Alabama two weeks ago was ago was an added experience-builder...
...have his hair turn gray, that very night...
...longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers...
...longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers...
Those who shy away from too much conversation about heaven can point out that detailed description of its charms has hardly been the historical rule. The two ancient peoples who probably contributed most to the heavenly notion both started out imagining a gray, undifferentiated afterlife, called Hades by the Greco-Roman culture and Sheol by the Jews. By 600 B.C., bodily resurrection had been incorporated into Judaism: the book of Ezekiel describes a field of dry bones, which at God's bidding "came together, bone to bone" and lived again. The motif recurred in the later books of the Hebrew...