... . In both of the HOME ALONE movies, when Kevin was reunited with his family and ran into the arms of his mother, even the most stoic found themselves biting back tears. Macaulay Culkin's portrayal of a "good kid" was so convincing that when he played a "bad kid" in a movie called The Good Son, the effect was stunning. Macaulay played against his stereotype. He appeared to be an ideal boy; polite, courteous, and obedient. Since he was perceived to be all good, when things went wrong around his house the ...
... sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it; And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it.8 When Helen Keller was still quite young, she read Macaulay’s Life Of Samuel Johnson. She said that her heart went out "to the lonely man who ate the bread of affliction in Grub Street, and yet, in the midst of toil and cruel suffering of body and soul, always had a kind word, and lent a helping hand to ...
... wanted to take that challenge? When the soldiers of the army of Israel heard Goliath's challenge, "they were dismayed and greatly afraid." Nobody wanted to fight him. King Saul was beside himself. Who could he get to fight Goliath? Now visualize Macaulay Culkin, the star of the Home Alone movies. Now perhaps that's a slight exaggeration, but the contrast is important. This small little fellow named David was the only Israeli who volunteered to face this giant Philistine. Now, of course king Saul appreciated ...
... their meeting by joining hands, praying the Lord's Prayer in unison, and then shouting all together, "Keep a-coming back. It works if you work it." We need to know that is true of the Christian faith as a whole. It works if you work it. ____________ 1. David Macaulay, The Way Things Work (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1988).
... . The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.” We are not orphans. We are part of the family of God. 1. From a sermon by Rev. Elizabeth Macaulay, http://www.richfieldumc.org/sermons/20061001.htm. 2. Collected and edited by Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young (Little Rock: August House, 1992), pp. 94-95. 3. The Jokesmith. 4. Steven Degner, http://www.starlutheran.org/sermons/010707.htm#2007. 5. http://www.kuc.org ...
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
