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...Western man, they are afire with a Pentecostal passion for sharing their new vision with others. Fresh-faced, wide-eyed young girls and earnest young men badger businessmen and shoppers on Hollywood Boulevard, near the Lincoln Memorial, in Dallas, in Detroit and in Wichita, "witnessing" for Christ with breathless exhortations...
During his active years, Niebuhr was a 17-hour-a-day dynamo who kept students breathless with rapid, challenging lectures and intense conversations in his unostentatious, book-lined office in the seminary tower. He lived a disciplined, mildly ascetic life and produced 17 major books, plus a torrent of trenchant speeches and articles-often turned out at the last minute. Generous but no word mincer, Niebuhr called pacifists "parasites," death-of-God theologians "infants," and White House religious services "complacent conformity." In 1952, he had a heart attack, the first of several physical ailments that slowed but did not stop...
Obviously this is not hot-and-breathless, burn-baby-burn writing. Unlike apocalyptic novelists, Gaines does not make the revolution happen by surreal rhetoric. He simply watches, a patient artist, a patient man, and it happens for him. When Jane, disobedient at last, walks past her plantation owner to take part in a demonstration, a code goes crack, as surely, as naturally as a root pushing up through concrete. · Melvin Maddocks
...have drawn in the part of the world you know, you must fill in to the edge of the parchment. Always a little beyond known seas begin the chimeras and monsters which obviously exist. They occupy the page to the edge where the border says we can stop, breathless. But we never know what is beyond the limits of our map and mind. On clear days we venture into that darkness, we take all that we know from our world and because we cannot know better, define our new visions with old eyes...
...just reached a limit-a dangerous accomplishment at any time-and had no idea of the responsibility. We had a country with lines simply drawn in on the map-the Pacific, an ocean not a state, asked slightly difficult questions to a people not yet breathless from the sprint over hills and valleys between plains. They stopped, but couldn't accept the absence of a finish line. America began to exist when she realized she had changed after the Revolutionary War for Independence and began to understand the nature of her energies, only a few steps behind the British proudly...