"She starts having opinions and she starts really for the first time in her life putting herself in other people's shoes," Bennett says. Through her reading, Bennett's queen becomes more aware of the political world and the world in general, Bennett tells Steve Inskeep. She's not a big reader - until she discovers how much she likes books.Īs Bennett describes it, the queen gets so absorbed in reading that even while riding in a carriage, she is reading a book with one hand while waving to her subjects with the other. In a book called The Uncommon Reader, he imagines Queen Elizabeth late in life. He's the author of many books, and a play called The History Boys, which became a movie. Or at least with the queen as imagined by the writer Alan Bennett. If you've got a stack of books that you know you should read, but you never do, maybe you have something in common with the queen of England. Alan Bennett: 'The Clothes They Stood Up In'
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The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. EIL 4.3 Spenser, Gawain, and Arthurian ContextĪ certain king and queen had three daughters. Cron and Stabile’s approach is likely to appeal particularly to thoughtful younger Christians. There isn’t much literature on the Enneagram, with little for curious evangelical Christians. The authors counsel the use of the system, which includes nine distinct personality types, for self-knowledge: “The objective of it is self-understanding.” It is also a useful tool for ministers and managers and anyone who has to work with diverse personalities, which will make the book appropriate for seminary study. More Books by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile Chasing Francis. As one of a number of ways of thinking about personality, it is a helpful spiritual analogue to Myers-Briggs typology. The Road Back to You Witty and filled with stories. The Enneagram also counsels humility and acknowledges its own limits (“ is not infallible or inerrant,” writes Cron and Stabile)-a welcome modesty in religious understanding today. The beauty of the Enneagram is its charity: the system clearly names the flaws as well as the virtues of each personality type. Cron ( Chasing Francis), an Episcopal priest, brings his witty, energetic voice to this collaboration with Stabile, a retreat director and expert on the Enneagram-a system of personality typology with roots in Christian and Islamic mysticism. He is best known for the films Miracles from Heaven, Heaven Is for Real, and the New York Times best-seller book The Wait, which he co-wrote with his wife Meagan Good. DeVonFranklin, /, DeVon Franklin (born April 13, 1978) is an American Hollywood producer, best-selling author and motivational speaker. In this New York Times bestseller, Hollywood power couple DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good candidly share their courtship and marriage, and the key to their successwaiting. Earlier this month, Good and Franklin released The Wait, a book that discusses their 13-month abstinence journey and offers advice for men and women who are navigating through love and relationships. President & CEO of Franklin Entertainment, books Produced by Faith, The Wait, The Hollywood Commandments Good, an actress, and Franklin, the former Senior Vice President of Columbia TriStar Pictures and a producer, tied the knot in June 2012. TV/film producer, author, preacher, television personality But Sierra has a secret, one that leads her, and Asher, to a dangerous place, and game, with dangerous players, and the game is about life or death. A woman who calls to a darker side of him, long suppressed, unleashing it in what becomes wicked hot passion and obsession. When Asher is pulled back into this toxic world he meets Sierra, who is as beautiful as she is mysterious. Women are dying, murdered, and the clock is ticking until another victim is claimed. But that is long behind him, and while his tattoos and long blond hair remain, he's now a chameleon, far more comfortable in a suit and tie than a leather jacket.īut now Walker Security needs him back inside the underground club scene for a police case they're working. She's as beautiful as she is mysterious and could be his destruction.Īsher wasn't always a member of the elite Walker Security team, he was a billionaire's son, who rebelled against his father's controlling hand, and ended up in New York City's underground of drugs, rock n roll, and danger. So all that is on each Side of this leaf is coppied in the later end of this book and this is no account." The individuals who composed the party engaged to essay the difficulties dangers & fatigues of this enterprise with the said officers consists of the persons whose Names are in the later part of this book as well as the begining as above, not bein room here. William Clark, and patronised by the Government of the U. "A Scatch of the beginning of Sergt John Ordways journal which commenced at Riverĭuboise in Year 1804, 14th of May under the directions of Capt. 1805- it being a minute relation of the various transactions and occurrences which took place during a voiage of two years 4 months 〈Years〉 and 9 days from the United States to the Pacific Ocean through the interior of the Continent of North America. Preceding the initial daily entry is the following on the first two pages of the journal. It is one of the marble-covered books of 184 pages measuringĪpproximately 6½ by 3¾ inches (see Appendix C). This begins Ordway's entries in his second notebook journal, covering the period October 1, 1805, to May 15, 1806. Instead of working through the challenges and mysteries her main character faced in the real world, the author did the "Poof! Magic will fix it!" miracle solution. But when the whole frozen lake thing began, I felt thoroughly manipulated. Sara's year following Megan's death seemed correctly imagined. The story started strong and the scenes during Megan's illness (when I could hear the whispering!) were very moving. She could begin with slight differences, but the voices all quickly returned to her "baseline" man and her "baseline" woman. Michael sounded like Matt who sounded like Peter who sounded like. Sara sounded like Cora who sounded like Jen who sounded like Sara. (I've since apologized to my IPod.) I suppose that might have been OK if she'd at least had a nice variety of voices. Then someone "else" would speak in a normal tone and I'm frantically reaching for the volume to back it down to avoid permanent hearing loss. So I'd stop what I was doing, wipe my hands if working, turn up the volume and go back to work. and her voice would get softer and softer and softer until the words would begin to run together like a low frequency vibration, rather than actual speech. I listen when I'm doing other things - driving, cooking, gardening, etc. Seriously! She breaks into whispering at key scenes. I don't know where to start to explain why this is so bad. He also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.ĭuring World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. We are now on the cusp of a third revolution in science, a revolution in biochemistry that is capable of curing diseases, fending off viruses, and improving the human species itself. Einstein was the genius of the revolution in physics, and Steve Jobs was the genius of the revolution in digital technology. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, and Steve Jobsreturns with a gripping account of how Nobel prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and improve the human species.īestselling author Walter Isaacson has established himself as the biographer of creativity, innovation, and genius. The next great innovation revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and Jennifer Doudna Face coverings are now optional for fully vaccinated guests.Ĭlick HERE for full COVID-19 information to review prior to your visit. At this time, only fully vaccinated guests are permitted to attend programs in the indoor theater. Guests attending any INDOOR John Drew Theater programs must show proof of FULL vaccination. THIS PROGRAM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE INDOORS IN THE JOHN DREW THEATER. Bacon's life has long been a kind of myth, structured around signposts-he was whipped as an adolescent by the grooms of his horse-trainer father he never drew he showed no emotion when his lover, George Dyer, died in a hotel in Paris in 1971. It is all the more potent for belonging to a phase of Bacon's life-the young man before he was an artist-that he later tried to erase from the record. He became Bacon's first serious lover and mentor.Īllden's diary is one of many new discoveries contained in Revelations, the first major biography of Bacon since Michael Peppiatt's Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an enigma in 1996. "His name was Francis Bacon and he had big childish pale blue eyes." Allden, whose name is virtually absent from previous accounts of the artist's life, was a diplomat and a member of the Tory establishment. "He told me he was starting a shop in London for ultra-modern furniture and was going to Paris to purchase samples", Allden wrote in his diary. įrancis Bacon was crossing the Channel from England to France in 1929 when he met a man called Eric Allden. |