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...manhood ...Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons." For a free nation whose moral flesh has become soft with disuse and fat with self flattery, a Great Man has a special role. More than the leader who would direct us, or the philosopher who would admonish us, he must be a man in whose image we would mold ourselves. To liberal Democrats during the 1950's, Adlai Stevenson served as the Philosopher-Would-be-King--a symbol and promise of the once and future Republic...
...businessmen. Since the steel crisis, most of the U.S. has been waiting to see if he would meet wage-increase demands by Big Labor with the same merciless tactics. The President had journeyed to Atlantic City not to praise labor (though that was part of the ritual) but to admonish it in firm fashion to stay in line...
...veteran of Mackinac Island interpersonal relationships, I admonish you ever so politely as to your oversight in categorizing your comments on the late Dr. Buchman under RELIGION...
Hammarskjold's new plan was full of dangerous risks. The major problem was how to prevent any further meddling by outsiders. The U.S. was prepared to admonish Belgium against contributing any more bombs, planes or pilots to Tshombe. But the real danger was Soviet Russia. Was Nikita Khrushchev sufficiently eager for warmer relations with the U.S. to agree to keep hands off in the Congo? Russia's first big grab had been halted last September. But, though Kasavubu and Mobutu had ordered the Russians out, the Russians have gone on clandestinely helping pro-Lumumba forces...
...break his mother's heart or die on the gallows but he will never suffer from a tin ear.") To his eleven grandchildren, modest Poet de la Mare would bow gently down and ask curiously: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" or would admonish: "Behold, I tell you a mystery," leaving them to supply their own explanation to his elaborate, whispered incantations. His message to grownups was to search everywhere for beauty. When death struck, Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield wrote: "Walter has gone, the land's most charming son," but many...