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...force that decides which candidate will be seen and heard and which will not be seen and heard. Though he speaks with the tongues of men and of angels and has not television, he is become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, for it is television that beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things. Says defeated Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown: "If a person isn't on tele vision, he is a political nonbeing. He does not exist for the voter, even if that voter meets him in person...
...work of literature after another, meanwhile, a similar mental cavern is retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide, Eliot, Mann...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...
...Beareth all things, believeth all things . . . Charity never faileth becomes " It will bear anything, believe anything . . . Love will never...
...text "Charity Believeth all Things," from the thirteenth chapter of the first Corinthians. He said: This chapter gives a very beautiful description of charity or love. But the qualities ascribed to it here are hardly what would be considered desirable by the practical world of today. It says "love beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things." But for a practical man to endure everything and to believe everying would seem to him ridiculous. He rejoices in his cleverness and thinks that he is so sharp that no one can deceive him. But he deceives himself for what...