... community of beautiful people, all of them frantically fine-tuning their social styles to the rapidly changing zeitgeist. For example, two of the characters plan a party around the renewal of their marriage "contract" and send the following invitation to their friends: Kate Smith and Harvey Holroyd request your presence at a Spring Festival - a Celebration of Open Commitment and Feeling Exchange where we can just Be. Come reaffirm with us our belief that in Life, it’s the Journey that counts, not the Goal ...
... it mean to be set free from our past? Speaking of graduation gifts, you probably heard a few months ago about Robert F. Smith, a billionaire investor, who was giving the commencement speech for the 2019 graduates of Morehouse College. He ended his speech by announcing that ... Illing May 25, 2019 Vox.com https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18510760/social-media-end-of-forgetting-kate-eichhorn 3. The Week, May 31-June 7, 2019, p. 5. 4. “The Choose-Your-Own-Ending generation: Fan petitions have gone ...
... the Woman’s Society of Christian Service, a fun reading. I responded affirmatively and turned to that delightful "The Bird’s Christmas Carol" by Kate Douglas Wiggin. I chose the chapter where the children have been invited to the Christmas party, a lengthy piece, but pure enjoyment. I ... Hymnal (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981), number 142. 4. See Warren Thomas Smith, "Justice and Grace" in The Upper Room Disciplines 1976 (Nashville: The Upper Room, 1976). 5. King Henry VIII, Act III, scene 2. 6. Ibid.
... to tragedy, drama, pity and especially self, you began to realize that a culture of entertainment will create entertainment that draws us into diversions. These diversions take us away from the real horror shows like Katrina for the fake horrors of Kate Gosselin or Anna Nicole Smith; from the nightmares caused by Wall Street for the Nightmare on Elm Street; from the Evil Grimace of a Bank of America who ups credit-card interest to 30% after getting a bail-out from taxpayers for Grimm’s Fairy Tales ...
