Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gabriel Vahanian suggests that there may well be no true faith without a measure of doubt, and thus contemporary Christian worry about God could be a necessary and healthy antidote to centuries in which faith was too con fident and sure. Perhaps today, the Christian can do no better than echo the prayer of the worried father who pleaded with Christ to heal his spirit-possessed son: "I believe; help my unbelief...
...convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked him to kidnap Mossler, was so deflated by Foreman that part of his confused...
...still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...
...result of the ecumenical interchange, the seminaries have turned from indoctrination to information, treating the ideas of men from different faiths not as heresies to be refuted but as insights to be appreciated. Union's Driver, for example, expects to face the same kind of pro-and-con debate about Tillich's theology at Fordham that he currently faces at Union...
...responsible for the hit-and-run death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver-certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff an ex-con who spent 15 years preparing the frame-up to revenge himself on both judge and barrister. Enough clues turn up at the Old Bailey to fill a telephone book, and leafing through them is just as exciting...