His sympathetic 1917 biographer, William T. Ellis wrote "One of the most significant tributes to the Evangelist Sunday is the storm of criticism which rages about his head." He noted that "many ministers have publicly attacked Sunday." [1]. Contemporary criticism of Billy Sunday centered around his use of language; his militant pugnacity and emphasis on hell; the questionable permanence of his claimed conversions; and his commercialism and salesmanship.
From the outset, however, it should be noted that few critics questioned his sincerity or integrity. A 1916 writer commented that
The left and the labor movement disliked Sunday's connections with the plutocracy, notably John D. Rockefeller, and felt Sunday was an apologist for the rich. As Carl Sandburg put it, "You tell poor people they don’t need any more money on pay day and even if it’s fierce to be out of a job, Jesus’ll fix that up all right, all right." [3]
In his 1917 New York campaign, Sunday indeed preached a sermon calling Job "the Vanderbilt, the Rockefeller, and the Carnegie of his day" and saying that despite being rich, "Job did the right thing by God." He added that "some of the best Christians I have known were rich." [4]
In addition to Rockefeller, Sunday's supporters included such businessmen as John Wanamaker, Henry Clay Frick, J. Odgen Armour, S. S. Kresge, and John M. Studebaker. [5]
With regard to his use of language, Sunday has been described variously as folksy, salty, [6] coarse, irreverent, [7] " George Ade's rival in slang," [8], "master of slang and argot." [9]
Contemporary sources suggest issues going beyond slang and colloquialism. Unitarian minister Joel H. Metcalf spoke of "the coarse jokes, the super-slang, the bawd characterizations, the ribald Billingsgate." [10] Universalist minister Frederick William Betts wrote:
Sunday was criticized by the liberal clergy of the day, particularly Universalists and Unitarians. Left-leaning minister Leon Milton Birkhead called Sunday's theology "a mediaeval belief that Christianity somehow is a fire-escape from a future hell." But even a generally admiring observer noted that
In a poem—originally appearing under the title "To A Contemporary Bunkshooter," but posthumously published under his original title, "To Billy Sunday"— Carl Sandburg attacked Sunday's pugnacity with equal pugnacity:
Sunday counted everyone who answered his call to "hit the sawdust trail" as a convert. By his own reckoning, he brought over a million people to Christ. But the permanence of Sunday's "conversions" were often questioned. Following the famous 1917 revival in New York, the Federal Council of Churches found that only 200 of the 68,000 were permanent converts. [12] In 1921, a commentator wrote:
To call people to the altar, Sunday used not only the carrot of his celebrity handshake, but the stick of scorn. The Encyclopedia of Evangelism says that Billy Sunday would "invite—more often, taunt—his auditors to 'hit the sawdust trail.'" [14] Betts noted that "if you do not 'hit the trail,' then watch out for the fireworks, for they are sure to follow. And if you are sensitive, you would better go home at this point. For in a moment will come the concentrated scorn and sarcasm of that shout, 'Well, go to hell if you want to.'" [7]
Sunday's reply to such criticisms was "They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good." [15]
Sinclair Lewis' novel Babbitt includes a character named Mike Monday, "the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America.... As a prize-fighter he gained nothing but his crooked nose, his celebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable." In his novel, a visit by Monday is opposed by "certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers," whom Monday calls "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests." Later, Lewis was to write Elmer Gantry, a novel about an evangelical preacher with resemblances to Sunday. (Sunday in turn referred to Lewis as "Satan's cohort.") [16]
C. E. S. Wood in Heavenly Discourse depicts Billy Sunday as going to Heaven, addressing St. Michael and God as "Hello, Mike. Howdy, Pardner," and offering to conduct a revival there: "I can pack heaven so tight the fleas will squeal, and all I want is the gate-receipts for the last performance." Sunday is shocked to find that
Carl Sandburg's attack on Sunday [3] has already been noted.
Frederick William Betts (1916). Billy Sunday, the Man and Method. Murray Press. Page images at Google Books
The word "entoptic" usually refers to these physical effects, originating within the eye and retina; but it is also used to refer to visual effects arising higher in the nervous system. In particular, archeologists J. D. Lewis-Williams and T. A. Dowson, in a much-cited 1988 paper The Signs of All Times, used the word to refer to patterns, arising within the central nervous system, that are perceived under altered states of consciousness including the aura of migraine, trance states, and drug-induced states.
http://www.wynja.com/arch/entoptic.html
As of 2005 ebooks are not a significant vehicle for dissemination of literary work. The meaning of the word ebook, prospects for its future, and interpretation of its history are still subject to debate.
So Little Time is a 1943 novel by John P. Marquand. It is little known today, although when published it reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List on September 13, 1943, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and went through eighteen hardbound printings.
The protagonist, Jeff Wilson, is a middle-aged writer who has achieved financial success and security as a script doctor, a rewriter of others' scripts. He has a wife and adult children and has an apartment in New York City and a house in the country. He frequently takes the train to the West Coast to work on movie scripts in Hollywood. He was an aviator in the First World War. This period, when everyone knew that they "did not have much time" has left a permanent stamp on him. The story follows his life during the year leading up to Pearl Harbor, interspersed with flashbacks to his past life.
Like many of Marquand's protagonists, Wilson has foregone the true love of his youth to marry prudently within his station. He lives more or less happily with his wife Madge, but yearns for the lost Louella Barnes. In his last meeting with Louella she makes advances which he is too inexperienced to recognize. She bid genial farewell saying "Good-by, and come back soon, now that you've found your way." The First World War intervenes, he fails to maintain the relationship, and she marries someone else. Wilson never does "find his way" back. Indeed, Wilson appears to have lost his way in life. He views the world with dissatisfaction and ironic distance:
As war approaches, he is haunted by his memories of World War I and the knowledge of what it was like to live life believing that "he did not have much time." He is disturbed by life continuing as usual, people going about their business when it is obvious to him that, again, there may not be much time.
One ongoing thread concerns his concern over his twenty-one-year-old son, Jim and his girlfriend Sally Sales. Jim enters the military, which Jeff reluctantly accepts as Jim's decision. He snipes with his wife over Sally. Madge, and his old war buddy Minot, disapprove of her social standing. She is "a little common," she does not know how to dress ("Those dreadful little shoes and the bag that matched... Her mother might have taught her—it shows where she came from.") She is "just an ordinary little girl from Montclair." "Not Montclair," says Jeff; " Scarsdale." "All right," says Madge, "Scarsdale." Minot insists that "Jim can't know what he wants. We have to break it up." Jeff does not agree, and encourages Jim and Sally to seize the day. "If you kids want to get married, you'd better get married. It may not work but—you haven't got much time."
In a generally favorable review, Joseph Warren Beach ("The Marquand World," NYT Aug 22, 1943,BR1) comments that the novel "is interesting as one of the first of American novels to make something of the present war. Just what Mr. Marquand does make of it is none to clear. Is he lampooning the vicious stupidity of 'business as usual,' or is he saying that war is life's essence, that even the luckiest of us have so little time to settle our accounts with ourselves?"
AHD4: stro·bo·scope NOUN: Any of various instruments used to observe moving objects by making them appear stationary, especially with pulsed illumination or mechanical devices that intermittently interrupt observation.
"this led to the spinning slits of the Phenakistoscope invented by Plateau, and the simultaneous independent invention, in 1833, by the Austrian Simon Stampfer of an almost identical device which he named the Stroboscope..." "...Simon Von Stampfer invents the stroboscope, (a phenakistiscope in reverse) which casts regular flashes of light on moving objects - making their motions appear jerky and abrupt...." "....Professor Simon Ritter von Stampfer of the Vienna Polytechnical Institute..."
The pages relating to Television particularly the PAL page does not mention the phonemenon described below. Can anyone help for a name for it plus establish whether it occurs becasue of conversion from film to PAL or from NTSC to PAL or some completely diferent route or reason?: When a fast moving vehcle is shown, particularly a horse drawn wagon or chariot with distinctive spokes, a strobe effect sometimes occurs that makes the wheel appear to move slowly backwards due to the rate at which the film is capturing the picture. Dainamo 10:34, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
"the blue sky is so commonplace that it is taken for granted" Schaefer, Vincent J. (1998). A Field Guide to the Atmosphere. Houghton Mifflin Field Guides.
ISBN
0395976316. {{
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"It is now well established that the luminosity and blue colour on very clear days and at considerable altitudes above the sea-level can almost be accounted for by the scattering of light by the molecules of air, without postulating suspended particles of foreign matter." R. J. Strutt (Lord Rayleigh), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 94(662), June 01, 1918, pp. 453 - 459.
"Children must learn to follow directions for many reasons... Say, "Color the sky blue." Children then are ready to be given two instructions to follow, and they follow them in order: "Color the grass green and the sky blue." •Next they learn to follow three instructions..." Burmeister, Lou E. (1983). Foundations and Strategies for Teaching Children to Read. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 020110802X., p. 103
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2030193.html
A field guide notes that "the blue sky is so commonplace that it is taken for granted"
[1]. It is a deep, saturated blue after a rainstorm
[1].
The poet Robert Service says "while the blue sky bends above/You've got nearly all that matters" [2]
Songwriter Irving Berlin wrote of " Blue Skies smiling at me," airmen fly into the wild blue yonder.
But the sky is not always blue. In the Bible, Jesus says to the Pharisees "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red" [3]. At twilight, salmon reds, oranges, purples, white-yellows, and many shades of blue can be seen [4]. And songwriter Oscar Hammerstein famously wrote of "when the sky is a bright canary yellow." [5]
"For Little Ones." Boston Daily Globe 1872; Apr 19, 1896; pg. 34: "Blue being a girl's color, the sky-blue pique is not used for boys."
Jordan was the builder of the Villa Maria, a private girl's dormitory in Madison. [6]
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p. 155 Cite error: The named reference "peterson" was defined multiple times with different content (see the
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The Conservapedia domain is registered to an Andrew Schlafly [1] which matches that offices of attorney Andrew Schlafly, general counsel to the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons [2]; the Conservapedia user whose username is aschlafly is a very active editor and administrator of the site.
His sympathetic 1917 biographer, William T. Ellis wrote "One of the most significant tributes to the Evangelist Sunday is the storm of criticism which rages about his head." He noted that "many ministers have publicly attacked Sunday." [1]. Contemporary criticism of Billy Sunday centered around his use of language; his militant pugnacity and emphasis on hell; the questionable permanence of his claimed conversions; and his commercialism and salesmanship.
From the outset, however, it should be noted that few critics questioned his sincerity or integrity. A 1916 writer commented that
The left and the labor movement disliked Sunday's connections with the plutocracy, notably John D. Rockefeller, and felt Sunday was an apologist for the rich. As Carl Sandburg put it, "You tell poor people they don’t need any more money on pay day and even if it’s fierce to be out of a job, Jesus’ll fix that up all right, all right." [3]
In his 1917 New York campaign, Sunday indeed preached a sermon calling Job "the Vanderbilt, the Rockefeller, and the Carnegie of his day" and saying that despite being rich, "Job did the right thing by God." He added that "some of the best Christians I have known were rich." [4]
In addition to Rockefeller, Sunday's supporters included such businessmen as John Wanamaker, Henry Clay Frick, J. Odgen Armour, S. S. Kresge, and John M. Studebaker. [5]
With regard to his use of language, Sunday has been described variously as folksy, salty, [6] coarse, irreverent, [7] " George Ade's rival in slang," [8], "master of slang and argot." [9]
Contemporary sources suggest issues going beyond slang and colloquialism. Unitarian minister Joel H. Metcalf spoke of "the coarse jokes, the super-slang, the bawd characterizations, the ribald Billingsgate." [10] Universalist minister Frederick William Betts wrote:
Sunday was criticized by the liberal clergy of the day, particularly Universalists and Unitarians. Left-leaning minister Leon Milton Birkhead called Sunday's theology "a mediaeval belief that Christianity somehow is a fire-escape from a future hell." But even a generally admiring observer noted that
In a poem—originally appearing under the title "To A Contemporary Bunkshooter," but posthumously published under his original title, "To Billy Sunday"— Carl Sandburg attacked Sunday's pugnacity with equal pugnacity:
Sunday counted everyone who answered his call to "hit the sawdust trail" as a convert. By his own reckoning, he brought over a million people to Christ. But the permanence of Sunday's "conversions" were often questioned. Following the famous 1917 revival in New York, the Federal Council of Churches found that only 200 of the 68,000 were permanent converts. [12] In 1921, a commentator wrote:
To call people to the altar, Sunday used not only the carrot of his celebrity handshake, but the stick of scorn. The Encyclopedia of Evangelism says that Billy Sunday would "invite—more often, taunt—his auditors to 'hit the sawdust trail.'" [14] Betts noted that "if you do not 'hit the trail,' then watch out for the fireworks, for they are sure to follow. And if you are sensitive, you would better go home at this point. For in a moment will come the concentrated scorn and sarcasm of that shout, 'Well, go to hell if you want to.'" [7]
Sunday's reply to such criticisms was "They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good." [15]
Sinclair Lewis' novel Babbitt includes a character named Mike Monday, "the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America.... As a prize-fighter he gained nothing but his crooked nose, his celebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable." In his novel, a visit by Monday is opposed by "certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers," whom Monday calls "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests." Later, Lewis was to write Elmer Gantry, a novel about an evangelical preacher with resemblances to Sunday. (Sunday in turn referred to Lewis as "Satan's cohort.") [16]
C. E. S. Wood in Heavenly Discourse depicts Billy Sunday as going to Heaven, addressing St. Michael and God as "Hello, Mike. Howdy, Pardner," and offering to conduct a revival there: "I can pack heaven so tight the fleas will squeal, and all I want is the gate-receipts for the last performance." Sunday is shocked to find that
Carl Sandburg's attack on Sunday [3] has already been noted.
Frederick William Betts (1916). Billy Sunday, the Man and Method. Murray Press. Page images at Google Books
The word "entoptic" usually refers to these physical effects, originating within the eye and retina; but it is also used to refer to visual effects arising higher in the nervous system. In particular, archeologists J. D. Lewis-Williams and T. A. Dowson, in a much-cited 1988 paper The Signs of All Times, used the word to refer to patterns, arising within the central nervous system, that are perceived under altered states of consciousness including the aura of migraine, trance states, and drug-induced states.
http://www.wynja.com/arch/entoptic.html
As of 2005 ebooks are not a significant vehicle for dissemination of literary work. The meaning of the word ebook, prospects for its future, and interpretation of its history are still subject to debate.
So Little Time is a 1943 novel by John P. Marquand. It is little known today, although when published it reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List on September 13, 1943, was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and went through eighteen hardbound printings.
The protagonist, Jeff Wilson, is a middle-aged writer who has achieved financial success and security as a script doctor, a rewriter of others' scripts. He has a wife and adult children and has an apartment in New York City and a house in the country. He frequently takes the train to the West Coast to work on movie scripts in Hollywood. He was an aviator in the First World War. This period, when everyone knew that they "did not have much time" has left a permanent stamp on him. The story follows his life during the year leading up to Pearl Harbor, interspersed with flashbacks to his past life.
Like many of Marquand's protagonists, Wilson has foregone the true love of his youth to marry prudently within his station. He lives more or less happily with his wife Madge, but yearns for the lost Louella Barnes. In his last meeting with Louella she makes advances which he is too inexperienced to recognize. She bid genial farewell saying "Good-by, and come back soon, now that you've found your way." The First World War intervenes, he fails to maintain the relationship, and she marries someone else. Wilson never does "find his way" back. Indeed, Wilson appears to have lost his way in life. He views the world with dissatisfaction and ironic distance:
As war approaches, he is haunted by his memories of World War I and the knowledge of what it was like to live life believing that "he did not have much time." He is disturbed by life continuing as usual, people going about their business when it is obvious to him that, again, there may not be much time.
One ongoing thread concerns his concern over his twenty-one-year-old son, Jim and his girlfriend Sally Sales. Jim enters the military, which Jeff reluctantly accepts as Jim's decision. He snipes with his wife over Sally. Madge, and his old war buddy Minot, disapprove of her social standing. She is "a little common," she does not know how to dress ("Those dreadful little shoes and the bag that matched... Her mother might have taught her—it shows where she came from.") She is "just an ordinary little girl from Montclair." "Not Montclair," says Jeff; " Scarsdale." "All right," says Madge, "Scarsdale." Minot insists that "Jim can't know what he wants. We have to break it up." Jeff does not agree, and encourages Jim and Sally to seize the day. "If you kids want to get married, you'd better get married. It may not work but—you haven't got much time."
In a generally favorable review, Joseph Warren Beach ("The Marquand World," NYT Aug 22, 1943,BR1) comments that the novel "is interesting as one of the first of American novels to make something of the present war. Just what Mr. Marquand does make of it is none to clear. Is he lampooning the vicious stupidity of 'business as usual,' or is he saying that war is life's essence, that even the luckiest of us have so little time to settle our accounts with ourselves?"
AHD4: stro·bo·scope NOUN: Any of various instruments used to observe moving objects by making them appear stationary, especially with pulsed illumination or mechanical devices that intermittently interrupt observation.
"this led to the spinning slits of the Phenakistoscope invented by Plateau, and the simultaneous independent invention, in 1833, by the Austrian Simon Stampfer of an almost identical device which he named the Stroboscope..." "...Simon Von Stampfer invents the stroboscope, (a phenakistiscope in reverse) which casts regular flashes of light on moving objects - making their motions appear jerky and abrupt...." "....Professor Simon Ritter von Stampfer of the Vienna Polytechnical Institute..."
The pages relating to Television particularly the PAL page does not mention the phonemenon described below. Can anyone help for a name for it plus establish whether it occurs becasue of conversion from film to PAL or from NTSC to PAL or some completely diferent route or reason?: When a fast moving vehcle is shown, particularly a horse drawn wagon or chariot with distinctive spokes, a strobe effect sometimes occurs that makes the wheel appear to move slowly backwards due to the rate at which the film is capturing the picture. Dainamo 10:34, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
"the blue sky is so commonplace that it is taken for granted" Schaefer, Vincent J. (1998). A Field Guide to the Atmosphere. Houghton Mifflin Field Guides.
ISBN
0395976316. {{
cite book}}
: Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help)
"It is now well established that the luminosity and blue colour on very clear days and at considerable altitudes above the sea-level can almost be accounted for by the scattering of light by the molecules of air, without postulating suspended particles of foreign matter." R. J. Strutt (Lord Rayleigh), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 94(662), June 01, 1918, pp. 453 - 459.
"Children must learn to follow directions for many reasons... Say, "Color the sky blue." Children then are ready to be given two instructions to follow, and they follow them in order: "Color the grass green and the sky blue." •Next they learn to follow three instructions..." Burmeister, Lou E. (1983). Foundations and Strategies for Teaching Children to Read. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 020110802X., p. 103
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2030193.html
A field guide notes that "the blue sky is so commonplace that it is taken for granted"
[1]. It is a deep, saturated blue after a rainstorm
[1].
The poet Robert Service says "while the blue sky bends above/You've got nearly all that matters" [2]
Songwriter Irving Berlin wrote of " Blue Skies smiling at me," airmen fly into the wild blue yonder.
But the sky is not always blue. In the Bible, Jesus says to the Pharisees "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red" [3]. At twilight, salmon reds, oranges, purples, white-yellows, and many shades of blue can be seen [4]. And songwriter Oscar Hammerstein famously wrote of "when the sky is a bright canary yellow." [5]
"For Little Ones." Boston Daily Globe 1872; Apr 19, 1896; pg. 34: "Blue being a girl's color, the sky-blue pique is not used for boys."
Jordan was the builder of the Villa Maria, a private girl's dormitory in Madison. [6]
{{
cite book}}
: Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help)
p. 155 Cite error: The named reference "peterson" was defined multiple times with different content (see the
help page).
The Conservapedia domain is registered to an Andrew Schlafly [1] which matches that offices of attorney Andrew Schlafly, general counsel to the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons [2]; the Conservapedia user whose username is aschlafly is a very active editor and administrator of the site.