Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schools: "Christ is often despised or ignored, the explanation of the universe and mankind is forced within the narrow limits of materialism or of rationalism...
...audiences, Gypsy Smith's black eyes have seemed as keen as ever, his voice mellow, his frame limber. (Only last year he married for the second time: a 26-year-old to whom he had long been "my hero.") Never a ranter, Gypsy Smith preaches of Christ Crucified, rambling as evangelists do. He has told audiences: "You are my manuscript. I look into your faces and wait for God to tell me what to say." He sings hymns in a sweet tenor, solo and with the congregation. He threatens no hell fire, for he believes that...
...another time less disturbed by calamitous external events"-an indication that after the war he might call an ecumenical council to define such errors. In continuation of the policies of his predecessor, Pius XII identified as errors: 1) racism, and 2) totalitarianism. Of the first: "The Church of Christ . . . cannot, and does not, think of deprecating or disdaining the particular characteristics which each people with jealous and intelligible pride cherishes. . . . Her aim is a supernatural union in all-embracing love...
...fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she scolded at Havelock's manners, dress, undemonstrativeness, called him a mixture of satyr and Christ, alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies in her. Both tried to be broadminded. ("Have a sweet time with Amy, who will do you good...
Judge Thomas Richardson, chairman of Newcastle's Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, rebuked "conchies" assembled before him by fuming: "I'm certain, as sure as I sit here, that if Christ appeared today he would approve of this war." Booed, hissed, Judge Richardson had to clear the court. Later he hemmed: "I was carried away. . . . Some of the statements as to what Christ would do irritated...