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...Brave) Kramer's film is especially notable for avoiding the slick solution and the easy out. It is not a picture in which faith-healers or master surgeons, in the last reel, make cripples walk again. Its basic theme is courage-courage in the face of utter hopelessness. It eloquently shows that cripples cannot get along with the world or themselves-and neither, for that matter, can normal people-unless they face reality and come to terms with...
...Depths. Transferred to another prison where his execution seemed imminent, Lilje reached new depths of spiritual and physical suffering. But at this stage of utter helplessness he found his sense of God most sure. "At this extreme limit of human life," he writes, "it becomes clear why God is with those who are despised, outcast, tortured, imprisoned, disinherited and solitary...
...knot ebbing tide and an 8-mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...
...churches are sacramental, while in certain others they are of no effect. Certain of the Protestant churches it thus includes make exactly the same classification. The various denominations whom these churches exclude, in turn, look upon the Catholic Church as the Scarlet Woman of Babylon and consider it an utter perversion of Christianity. "Where are we going to draw the line? If we admit 'Christianity' to a privileged position, how do we define it? ... Balancing, say, Vermont against New 'Mex ico we can see that legally, state by state, Christianity' would vary as much as divorce...
Women gripe about the two types of men most commonly found in American colleges; the utter conformist, and the sloppy person who wants only comfort from his clothes. A less often seen man is the show-off. He will put anything on his back that he thinks will draw attention...