“It starts when you get to a point in life where you can’t go over, above or around any more and you appeal to a higher power.” Speaking with the calm of a man who enjoys peace of mind, tall, spare, middle aged Bill went on. I’m trying to help others without asking ‘gimme’ - and I pray.” Bill advised alcoholics to talk over their problems in confidence, “make what amounts to a confession–an internal house cleaning. “I straightened out my relations with others. In direct, soft spoken narrative he told his story - “the story of a drunk” - and then described the origin of the method that has brought recovery to him and to more than 60,000 alcoholics throughout the nation. the speaker was a man known publicly only as Bill. this straight advise mixed with plenty of common sense was given t some 4500 alcoholics, their friends and relatives, last Sunday night at a public Meeting in Shrine Auditorium. Los Angeles - “It takes cultivation of a habit of prayer and development of a spirit of service to overcome the obsession of alcoholism. Reprinted from The Tidings: Friday, March 26, 1948, page 17
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His purchase felt like a vote of confidence to her, so she pulled up her big-girl panties and jumped into the world of professional woodworking. Or she was, until her hot neighbor bought her first wolf carving three years ago. Maybe there’s someone out there who really loves reading about the eternal werewolf struggle: To mate, or not to mate with a human? Too often I felt various silly moments pulling me out of the story and preventing me from really enjoying the book. I didn’t find myself laughing at werewolf organizations called HOWL and WOOF, or sighing sadly when the characters decided there was no way for them to be together. That’s what happened when I read Werewolf in Alaska. Have you ever read a book-one that everyone else around you loved-and hated it? Whenever that happens to me I’m stuck staring at the book once I’ve finished, thinking back and wondering, “What do they see in it?” It’s as though the rest of the world understands something about humor or emotion or life, and I’m just clueless. The inn and its name date back to the 14th century, and the inn's charm is further embellished by a history of haunting related to a 17th-century owner, Thomas Underhill, a Cambridge scholar who dabbled in the occult. The novel is set in and around The Green Man, an inn between London and Cambridge owned by Maurice Allington, a 53-year-old man with a second wife, a teenage daughter and an 80-year-old father living with him in the inn's upstairs apartment. The novel reflects Amis's willingness to experiment with genre novels (e.g., The Alteration (science fiction/alternate history), or Colonel Sun: (A James Bond Adventure) while displaying many of the characteristics of his conventional novels, both in superficial aspects such as fogeyishness and problems with alcohol, and in more substantive aspects such as a self-reflective observation of human cruelty and selfishness in everyday relations. A Times Literary Supplement reviewer described The Green Man as "three genres of novel in one": ghost story, moral fable, and comic novel. The Green Man ( ISBN 978-0-89733-220-0) is a 1969 novel by British author Kingsley Amis. |