Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive for political dominance, he has alienated far more than the fanatical Nasser lovers. Last week ex-Foreign Ministry Secretary Fuad Ammoun, a Christian, claimed that six of Lebanon's eight political parties, all the religious leaders, all the former Presidents, Premiers, Foreign Ministers and Speakers of Parliament have taken a stand against the Chamoun regime. Anger at Chamoun is the only single force that unites the divided rebel leadership, much of which is tribal and local and asserts its authority now largely because the government does not or cannot. Many leaders of the Moslem Arabs themselves are politicians...
Tiny Lebanon (pop. 1,500,000) is roughly half Christian, half Moslem, but that is not the half of it. In this ancient land of differing races and religions, personal and tribal loyalties count for more than other allegiances. Among the key personalities...
...recalls a dentist whose nurses made him feel that "dying in the midst of these happy smiles and the angel wings of these white, immaculate uniforms would be a pure pleasure, a moment of no consequence . . . I left this dentist, in order to protect within my mind the Christian idea of death...
...book has its faults, including occasional oversimplification. But Americans as well as Europeans who wish to understand America should consider it must reading. They will find an illuminating witness to the American promise as well as a heart-lifting prophecy. Says Maritain: "If a new Christian civilization, a new Christendom is ever to come about in human history, it is on American soil that it will find its starting point...
...spirits from the vasty deep, and if it were not for a few medium-rare souls, including Arthur Ford, magical goings-on would be largely confined to the hinterlands of Africa, the Caribbean islands and Tibet. The author of this book, a professional medium and onetime minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was once urged by his familiar spirits to get out of the stock market. The time was 1929, and, wherever it came from, it was a rattling good tip. The recipient naturally believed that in the voices of spirits there was great wisdom...