Word: believerism
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Job Mann, as his name suggests, is a patient, courageous believer buffeted by an angry sea of unbelief, a symbol of the rocky virtues that keep man's head above water. Life for Job and his wife, Katie, has been secure and happy until age, illness and the Great...
The coffins were not Kaufman's first idea. He had another, but it was so horrible he prefers not to talk about it. Western Union refused to deliver the coffins and books; they said they were afraid the Nazis might stop their German cable service. So Author Kaufman used...
Towering, silver-haired, pink-faced Sir William Davison, 69, is a peppery, ultra-conservative M.P. who looks like an Esquire illustration of elderly, tweedy correctness. He is also a great believer in the power of thought. "I am no crank," says he, "but if people all over the world wished...
The U. S. businessman never loved dollars as metal or paper, in the grim, sensual way in which Frenchmen loved francs. The U. S. businessman, in the days before the Revolution, was George Babbitt, a booster-a booster because he was a believer. He believed in money because it represented...
A rationalist and firm believer in liberty of conscience, Jefferson summed up his purpose in a letter to John Adams: "We must reduce our volume to the simple Evangelists; select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus. . . . There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code...