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...gradualIy closing to the light from the bank . . . Lighten us and regenerate us in the depths where we lie. Save us from darkness and the plague. Let us be filled with that better life towards which we yearn with palpitating gills . . . And take pity on our small fry. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among the Mad | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Speaking as both a political scientist and something of a Soviet expert, a sevenfold amen to your March 9 article on "Journalism and Joachim's Children." I believe that the most important truth I have learned as a political scientist, in the study of political theory, is that the very foundation of Western democracy is Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

From preaching "the faith," at the start, he went on to conduct a hate campaign directed against Jews, Protestants, and the Catholic hierarchy in Boston. His sermons on the Common were often broken by violence, and a prowl car put an "amen" on many closing prayers...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Holy See Excommunicates Feeney To End 4-Year Doctrinal Dispute | 2/20/1953 | See Source »

...Elder Branson said a short prayer: "We know, dear Lord, that all the silver and the gold is thine; we pray to thee to bless this plant, the people who work in it, the brother and sister who have given it back to thee, and to bless its profits. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: $5,000,000 Tithe | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...force in the political life of the United States today for him ever to be willing to limit himself to the confines of the Harvard horizon. I think that Harvard needs and deserves a full-time President. Our sister universities in New York and Philadelphia might add a hearty amen to that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAHMINS' CHOICE | 1/31/1953 | See Source »

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