Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again the prosecution was up against Kenyatta's flamboyant old defense counsel, Denis Nowell Pritt, Q.C., this time representing Macharia. He would bring forth evidence, said Pritt, that would make him ashamed of being English. At one point he melodramatically exclaimed; "I think I may be physically...
...leader" should be tied with sinews taken from their own ribs, and that "who assists the whites he must be castrated. We must take out his eyes and then hold him for seven days and then we will cut his head off and see if the whites can bring him back to life...
...Protestantism do in the present crisis of modern man who "no longer possesses a world view in the sense of a body of assured convictions about God, the world, and himself"? Protestantism, says Dr. Tillich, cannot offer such a world view: "it must fight from above this level to bring everything under judgment and promise." This cannot be done, he says, simply by asserting theological truth, or by going back to the Reformation's theme of justification by faith alone. It can only be done by, in effect, driving man to the painful extremity of accepting the ultimate threat...
...himself, ultimate value. It needs to be reminded that neither the pressure of events nor the exigencies of diplomacy can warrant the final debasement of man. Art is neither use, nor appointed task; but given human compulsions, some intellectual stature and great competence, it can perhaps bring man back into focus as being of supreme importance...
...Later, as Director of Masterworks, Lieberson almost single-handed built up Columbia's skimpy catalogue of classical works to compete with first-place RCA Victor. He was made executive vice president in 1949, president in 1956, now earns a salary of $70,000 a year, plus benefits that bring it to about...