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...this he left as heritage for his fellow Jews. But Buber, recalls his friend Rabbi Abraham Heschel of Manhattan, also said: "I'm not a Jewish philosopher. I'm a universal philosopher." From his roots in Judaism, Buber spoke to the world at large, propounding a philosophy of dialogue whose central theme was, "All real life is a meeting." To Buber, man achieved his authentic existence only in loving encounter with God and his fellow man. He called this relationship I-Thou, in contrast to I-It, where individuals deal with one another as objects. For many Christian...
Within hours after Wagner's announcement, the line of applicants started forming. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., boosted by the endorsement of Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, said he was available-"if the right people ask me." Behind Roosevelt stood City Council President Paul R. Screvane, Comptroller Abraham D. Beame, Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor and Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan...
IOWA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, LL.D., one of three living descendants of Abraham Lincoln...
Beards of a feather? Not really. The beard on the new Cuban 13-centavo stamp belonged not to Fidel but to Abraham Lincoln, whose likeness appeared below his famous admonition: "Se puede engahar a todo el pueblo parte del tiempo, se puede engahar a parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no se puede engahar a todo el pueblo todo el tiempo." The lines-more familiar to Americans as "You may fool all of the people some of the time," etc.-were obviously meant to refer to the Yanquis. Cubans may just possibly apply them to someone else...
...most people, Reconstruction is a tragedy in four sorrowful acts. Abraham Lincoln, gentle and compassionate, sought ways to ease the South back into the Union as the Civil War rumbled to a close. After his martyr's death his program was left in the well-meaning but bumbling hands of Andrew Johnson, who managed to organize Southern governments which accepted the war's outcome and pledged fair treatment for the poor and homeless Negro...