A believer in world government, he wrote this passage soon after airplanes dropped atomic bombs onto Japan and just as the United Nations complex was rising at the end of his street along the East River: "It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it.
But Curtis-Smith refutes that idea telling us he wrote this passage to mimic Bolcom.
Phillips wrote this passage at least twenty years before Adams' book appeared.
John York argues that, in writing this passage, Eusebius was cowed by the anti-Licinian propaganda of the Constantinian era: as an ancestor of the emperor's last enemy, Philip could not receive the special distinction of the title "first Christian emperor"—Constantine had claimed it for himself.
As I write this, just after passage of the biggest health care reform the United States has ever seen, I'm appalled at so many things.
Messiaen, a Roman Catholic steeped in religious mysticism, was inspired to write this work by a passage from the Book of Revelation that describes a wall of many colors in a celestial city.
Though the execution was not exact, Mahler writes that this passage should be played ferociously, and it certainly was here.
Renault later wrote that this passage of dialogue "gave the starting-point to my first historical novel" — "The Last of the Wine," in other words, the novel in which homosexuality wasn't considered a limitation.
Renault later wrote that this passage of dialogue "gave the starting-point to my first historical novel"—"The Last of the Wine," in other words, the novel in which homosexuality wasn't considered a limitation.
In fairness, many scholars believe that Paul did not in fact write the passages calling on women to be silent.
