Bleaker than the 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical film it inspired, Stong's book connected perfectly with the dark, nostalgic mood of a country struggling through economic calamity.
They'd acted early enough to buy themselves time for trial and error, to figure out all the steps required to get her through this calamity.
Sure, the mammoth comebacks by Brigham Young and Western Kentucky were awe-inspiring only after you got through the calamity that was the reason they were so far behind.
Lecturing for the first time before the august fellows of University College, the thirty-three-year-old Housman had the nerve to tell them how to live: "One lifetime, nine lifetimes are not long enough for the task of blocking every cranny through which calamity may enter..
Lecturing for the first time before the august fellows of University College, the thirty-three-year-old Housman had the nerve to tell them how to live: "One lifetime, nine lifetimes are not long enough for the task of blocking every cranny through which calamity may enter...
Thus we are living through a calamity could have been - and was - predicted.
The players who win opposition fans' hearts through character, calamity, skullduggery or just sticking around long enough to remind us that there are people older than ourselves who play football for a living.
He campaigned for Lincoln, served devotedly as secretary of state through the calamity of the Civil War, became one of the president's dearest friends, and proved so indispensable and loyal to the Union cause that he was targeted in what was meant to be a synchronized triple assassination of Lincoln, Seward, and Vice President Andrew Johnson.
After she runs through several calamities, the fizzy lights switch off, and Mrs. Jarrett is once again talking trivialities with Sally Deborah Findlayy), who fears cats, Vi (June Watson), who some years earlier stabbed her husband in supposed self-defense, and severely timid Lena (Kika Markham).
That's exactly how most of the world sees Africa: filtered through images of calamity.
