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The Will to Wait

July 6, 2023
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Recently, while reading some stories from Leo Tolstoy’s “Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales,” it struck me how many of his characters were prisoners of time and circumstance. “What Men Live By” features a fallen angel, Michael, who lives as a human being for years while seeking answers to three questions that God has…

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Saints and Sinners: Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Twenty-Three Tales’

June 20, 2023
Arts & CulturebooksBrightleo tolstoy
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“‘What am I asking?’ he said to himself. ‘I’m asking about the relation to the Deity of all the various faiths of mankind. I’m asking about the general manifestation of God to the whole world with these nebulae. What am I doing? To me personally, to my heart, unquestionable knowledge is revealed, inconceivable to reason,…

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Film Review: ‘Living’: Bill Nighy Delivers a Career-Defining Performance

December 22, 2022
Akira KurosawaArts & CultureBill NighyBrightFilm & TVleo tolstoyliving
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 PG-13 | 1h 42min | Drama | 23 December 2022 (USA) As a character actor best known for his reoccurring roles in the “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” and “Underworld” franchises, Bill Nighy makes every film he appears in better simply by showing up. His boozing and aging rock star from “Love, Actually” was the sole interesting…

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Sen. David Richards: The Aggrieved

September 13, 2022
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Commentary Money which my wife and I now have but never had for years seems to provoke the belief in others that we should have a kind of commitment toward open-mindedness, a feeling that we must pay obligatory lip service to the “liberal” issues that have forced their way into the court of today’s public…

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