Word: dying
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...religion is present. A speaker knows quite well that he can arouse his audience by invoking a familiar tone or a key word. Almost mechanically the audience's "that's right" follows any reference to the Lord, or to a Biblical legend, or any catch phrase like "do or die" "that's right, do or die...
...drive generated by the Birmingham riots to sneer at King's passive approach to integration: "King's movement is just a form of sophisticated begging. We are not a violent movement, but we do not believe in getting our heads kicked in, either. Black people have been dying for nothing all these years-now it's time for them to die for something." Jackie Robinson and Floyd Patterson were in town for a day. They made a couple of angry speeches, then flew North again without getting too deeply embroiled in the Birmingham bitterness. Said Robinson...
...retinue, and carried them off to Vienna. At week's end King Saud was reportedly in an oxygen tent, responding to treatment for a duodenal ulcer. Doctors predicted recovery within a few weeks, but rumors still filtered through Vienna that Saud was in fact quite ill. Should Saud die, Prince Feisal will become King in name as well as in fact...
...German music. But since 1952, he has lived in Italy as something of a cultural exile. "I was eager to leave the growing materialism and persisting narrowness of my motherland," he says. His music, though, remains German in its contrapuntal structure, and it is still played mostly in die Heimat. But respectful German critics readily grant Henze his Stravinskian legacy and the Italianate influences in his music. Says H. H. Stuckenschmidt, one of the most distinguished German critics: "He is the least bourgeois and the least Teutonic German composer...
Conservatives among Southern Baptists deeply fear that questioning the literal truth of the Bible will kill their church by scriptural anemia; liberals deeply fear that clinging to the literal Bible will make their church wither and die of a quaint unreality. Last week in Kansas City. 12,670 "messengers" to the annual assembly of the 10,200,000-member church reflected this split by electing a conservative president and passing a string of liberally oriented resolutions. Frontrunner, as the assembly opened, was the Rev. Carl Bates of Charlotte. N.C., who seemed to have doubts about the oldtime conservative religion: "Laymen...