Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Herschel Hobbs insists, "We are a people who grant to every individual the right to interpret the Scriptures as he is led by the Holy Spirit. We have no creed. The trustees thought the book was the center of the problem, and simply wanted it withheld until everything died down." In the seminaries, everything is not likely to die down. "Many of our lay people and our students are hungering to grapple with some of the deeper issues of our existence," says Elliott. "We just can't deny the validity of the quest any longer...
...buzzed with constant activity, constant television interviews, and an air of almost unbelieving optimism about actual victory. On the other end of the hall a small group of old ward politicians sat in a circle smoking cigars, watching their candidate--Sweepstakes Kelly--and their own brand of machine politics die a slow death. By 10:30 p.m. they turned off their one television set and just sat quietly...
Subliminally, Tchin-Tchin is a Christian existential fable. The action begins just before Christmas. In material terms, Caesario and Pamela lose everything. In spiritual terms, they die out to the world. Meaning crumbles with their marriages. Thrown into what existentialists call a "situation of extremity" and Christians call "peril of soul," they strive in the "Garden of Eden" for the conditions of Paradise, where Adam and Eve possessed nothing and enjoyed everything...
...shadows of the mind? The death of the incestuous Ferdinand, who is set upon by vengeful dwarfs, is a marvel of umbrousness: "The dwarfs stood in a semicircle, watching. They had never brought down anything so large before. It made them solemn. Ferdinand took a long time to die. Then the rustle of silk inside his brain abruptly stopped...
...case Rogers lost, but here he was at his best as a lawyer and as a man. He was defending a feeble-minded 17-year-old who had senselessly clubbed another boy to death. There was a public outcry for a hanging, and the boy was duly sentenced to die, but not before Rogers, a lifelong foe of capital punishment, had fought the case to the Supreme Court with tenacity and eloquence. Beneath Rogers' malarkey, his swagger and his courtroom stunts was a real compassion for the outcasts of the world. "Who are we to take life, life given...