The Good Shepherd

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Turan, Kenneth (December 22, 2006). " The Good Shepherd". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2008-10-16 . Retrieved 2009-04-06. Forsyth created this original work as a Christmas gift to his first wife Carrie after she requested a ghost story be written for her. Written on Christmas Day 1974, and published near that time a year later, the idea came while trying to think of a setting away from the typical haunted homes, and seeing planes flying overhead. Many have speculated references to preexisting RAF folklore. While Forsyth is a former RAF pilot and could have heard and adapted such a story (either with or without the intent to do so) no references or anecdotal evidence have been put forward to support such claims. The flight lieutenant told him Joe, the mess steward, was preparing a room for him. Joe started a fire in the room’s fireplace, brought the pilot food, and stayed to talk. The mess steward said he worked at RAF Minton for twenty years. During the war there had been many young fliers, but the best one had been John Kavanaugh, who had had the room they were now in. The pilot walked over to a framed old photo of a young pilot beside a Mosquito with JK painted on its nose. Joe said that during the war, after the squadron had returned, John Kavanaugh would refuel his Mosquito and go out alone, searching for any crippled bombers to guide them home. The 79th Academy Awards (2007) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. Can he somehow be saved from his dire predicament ? Can someone guide him to safety ? It seems his prayers have been heard.A rescue aircraft appears,though it is of a slower,obsolete variety.

Puig, Claudia (December 22, 2006). "Mesmerizing Good Shepherd will rope you in". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2008-10-28 . Retrieved 2009-04-06. The story has been broadcast "nearly every Christmas since 1979" in Canada on the CBC Radio One news programme As It Happens. [1] Read by Alan Maitland, the recording always airs on the last episode on or before Christmas Eve. In 2018, for the 50th Anniversary special of As it Happens [2] Carol Off, Michael Enright, and Tom Power celebrated the tradition of reading The Shepherd by reading lines from the story. Probably just three stars for the book itself, but at least one more for the excellent Tom Hanks film adaptation, "Greyhound." Said it before but I'll say it again - short books make the best movies, because they get to actually add things in - extra scenes, action, character development - rather than have to take things out, which is why most full-length books end up being better than their film versions.*

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Edward decides to finally read his father’s suicide note, which reveals that Thomas was a traitor as suspected. He begs his family's forgiveness and urges his son to live a life of decency and truth. Edward burns the note. The film ends as Edward prepares to move into his offices in the new counter-intelligence wing. Thomson, David (June 22, 2007). "Spies Like Us". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08 . Retrieved 2009-09-16. A film can take a strictly documentary approach ... If that's the standard, then anyone with historical sense is going to dislike the liberties The Good Shepherd takes. If one approaches the film as a work of art, one must still ask if there is truth in the story-telling. Does it convey the sense of the time: the atmosphere, the motivations, the tone, and the challenges? I think we all agree that the film fails that test as well. It fails because it inserts themes we know from our studies of the period were not there: the overarching economic interest, the WASP mafia dominance, the cynicism, the dark perspective. In reality, the stakes were high during the Cold War; the Soviets were seen to be on the march and very dangerous. It was serious business, and there were many personal costs. And yet, most CIA people were enjoying their work at the same time, as any number of oral history interviews and memoirs will attest. [3] Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ( AW) ‘I have said you are “gods”’ [ d]? ( AX) 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God ( AY) came—and Scripture cannot be set aside ( AZ)— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apart ( BA) as his very own ( BB) and sent into the world? ( BC) Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? ( BD) 37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. ( BE) 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” ( BF) 39 Again they tried to seize him, ( BG) but he escaped their grasp. ( BH)

Hultgren, Arland J. (2000). The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-6077-4. am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. c 12A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. d 13This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. The son of a furrier, he was born in Ashford, Kent, educated at Tonbridge School and later attended the University of Granada. He became one of the youngest pilots in the Royal Air Force at 19, where he served on National Service from 1956 to 1958. Becoming a journalist, he joined Reuters in 1961 and later the BBC in 1965, where he served as an assistant diplomatic correspondent. From July to September 1967, he served as a correspondent covering the Nigerian Civil War between the region of Biafra and Nigeria. He left the BBC in 1968 after controversy arose over his alleged bias towards the Biafran cause and accusations that he falsified segments of his reports. Returning to Biafra as a freelance reporter, Forsyth wrote his first book, The Biafra Story in 1969. Jesus Christ is also compared to a shepherd in Matthew 2:6, Matthew 9:36, Matthew 25:32, Matthew 26:31, Mark 6:34, Mark 14:27, John 10:2, Hebrews 13:20, 1 Peter 2:25, 1 Peter 5:4, and Revelation 7:17. Matt Damon as Edward Wilson Sr. He is the film's main character, partly based on James Jesus Angleton and partly on covert operations specialist Richard Bissell. [2] His false identity in Britain was "Mr. Carlson".

The textual evidence for the first clause is very divided; it may also be translated: “As for the Father, what he has given me is greater than all,” or “My Father is greater than all, in what he has given me.” Still Forester's fans (of which I am one) will be happy. He is, I think, incapable of writing a completely bad story. But in Forester’s chosen field, and when his talents for creating a sense of participation and of identification are in top gear, he has no master and few peers. Robert De Niro directed the film, and produced it in conjunction with James G. Robinson and Jane Rosenthal. Academy Award Winning screenwriter, Eric Roth, began work on the movie after abandoning his attempt to adapt Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost for the big screen. Just like De Niro's project, Mailer's novel, Harlot's Ghost, is a fictionalized chronicle of the CIA. In Jn 10:7– 8, the figure is of a gate for the shepherd to come to the sheep; in Jn 10:9– 10, the figure is of a gate for the sheep to come in and go out.

One of the panel of CIA historians who discussed the movie in a round table strongly disagreed that the leak was crucial, saying: Simon Dang (May 29, 2009). "Robert De Niro Talks Plans For A 'Good Shepherd' Trilogy". The Playlist. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020 . Retrieved June 19, 2020. The Shepherd relates the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot, going home on Christmas Eve 1957, whose aircraft suffers a complete electrical failure en route from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Lost in fog over the North Sea, low on fuel, no working compass or radio, the pilot begins flying in small triangles, an odd flying pattern which would be detected on radar. An air traffic controller would be notified, and would send other aircraft to find him and "shepherd" (i.e. guide) him to Merriam St. George, the closest airstrip he was aware of. This is a reference to the judges of Israel who, since they exercised the divine prerogative to judge ( Dt 1:17), were called “gods”; cf. Ex 21:6, besides Ps 82:6 from which the quotation comes.

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As a young recruit in the US Navy, one of the more important doctrines drilled into my mind was that authority could be delegated, but responsibility never departs from the person in command. Should you find yourself in command of a bathroom cleaning crew or a capital warship, everything that happens under your command is your responsibility. And when the weight of that absolute responsibility is combined with the emotions associated with duty and honor, the result is a person that is structured to endure the extremes of human existence for a worthwhile cause. The story covers 13 watches (52 hours) aboard the ship's bridge and is told in third person entirely from Krause's point of view as he fights to save his ship, detailing his mood swings from his intense and focused excitement and awareness during combat to his resulting fatigue, depression, and self-doubt as his self-perceived inferiority and inexperience relative to the other captains under his command trouble him—although as the story progresses he is shown to be quite capable. He broods over his career and the wife who left him, partly because of his strict devotion to duty. He is troubled when the press of duty forces him to neglect his prayers (unlike most of Forester's other heroes, Krause is devout). He is troubled by recollections that the Navy review board had twice passed him over for promotion, returning a judgment of fitted and retained because there was little or no opportunity in the prewar Navy. His promotion to commander only came when the United States entered the war, leading him to fear that he may be unsuited to his command. Newsweek magazine's David Ansen wrote, "For the film's mesmerizing first 50 minutes I thought De Niro might pull off the Godfather of spy movies ... Still, even if the movie's vast reach exceeds its grasp, it's a spellbinding history lesson". [22] However, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine observed that, "It's tough to slog through a movie that has no pulse". [23] In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Emerson wrote, "If you think George Tenet's Central Intelligence Agency was a disaster, wait until you see Robert De Niro's torpid, ineffectual movie about the history of the agency". [24] Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian gave the film two out of five stars and criticized Damon's performance: "And why is Damon allowed to act in such a callow, boring way? As ever, he looks like he is playing Robin to some imaginary Batman at his side, like Jimmy Stewart and his invisible rabbit. His nasal, unobtrusive voice makes every line sound the same". [25] Historical accuracy debate [ edit ] Forester writes in the third-person limited, so that we see everything through Commander Krause’s eyes alone. The fidelity he maintains to his self-imposed parameters is impressive. There is no cheating, no cutaways, no switching to another character in a different part of the ship. Certainly we never meet the Germans in their lethal undersea boats. The gift of enforcing on the reader this sense of identification and participation explains the enduring fascination of Forester’s most celebrated creation—Captain Horatio Homblower. Hornblower’s all-too-human doubts and fear, beneath the resolute exterior, communicate themselves to us even as we project ourselves into his exploits. But even the fine Homblowers do not match .the present achievement. “The Good Shepherd” is the story of forty-eight desperate hours in the life of a North Atlantic convoy. The time is early in the war, before improved sonar and hunter-killer teams turned the tide against the U- boats. Commander of the escort vessels (Comescort) by accident of rank is Comdr. George Krause, U.S.N. To protect the thirty-seven merchantmen under a retired British admiral (Comconvoy), Krause has exactly four ships. [. . .] Twelve escorts would be needed to do the job with any real safety.