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...doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
Three actors and three actresses portray a total of some thirty-odd characters. After each episode the authors shake their kaleidoscope and the players fall into a new combination of roles. This use of multiple roles and a bare stage set only with a few chairs permits a fast-paced production that rarely drags and almost always maintains interest...
Terrace does not really attempt to portray reality. Instead, it captures what someone in Beverly Hills apparently thought someone in Kansas City would imagine to be the behavior of the East Coast's sinful rich. Says Newman to his breathless love: "You're the first person I've asked to go out with me since I've been married...
...reliefs shown on the following pages portray the king in happier times. For the Assyrians, the hunt was an art in itself. The king's men would release a captive lion from a cage so that the king could first wound him with arrows. At last the monarch would step forward, his left arm wrapped in a heavy cloth (which the artist here omits so as not to disfigure the king). As the lion reared for the last time, the king would plunge his weapon through the great beast's body...
...vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily annotated fig leaf. As Fiedler sees it, the fig leaf conceals guilt and impotence, the historical inability of the U.S. novelist to portray mature women or deal with adult hetero sexual relationships...