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...destiny; denied the spiritual principle which gives his reason access to the truth, which endows his conscience and will with the craving for the good, which empowers his heart to love; imprisoned hopelessly in this world of strife and frustration, here to center all his hopes and here to erect his paradise . . . He is but a passing shadow of no duration, a fragment of no intrinsic or ultimate worth...
...Soldier Eisenhower-or perhaps it was for those who watched him-the change into uniform worked magic. Setting out on the biggest and most important job of his career, he seemed to have grown taller and more erect, and to radiate confidence...
...should get out of Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
...function of religion, according to Rosenzweig, is not to erect theological systems or establish universal truths, but to lead to experience of God, starting from one's own personal existence. He "commends 'the Pharisees of the Talmud and the saints of the Church' for knowing that 'man's understanding extends only so far as his doing.' Religious observance is, in effect, the doing of one's religious convictions; the two cannot be separated...
This phenomenon has had almost as strong an effect on the self-made cowboy as it has on his juvenile admirers. Boyd-who, at 55, is an erect, ruddy man with a direct gaze, a quick smile, and a surprising air of authority and command-now has an almost evangelistic attitude about his success. He discusses himself in the third person-as "Hoppy" or "this character"-and seems to feel that he has retapped the same deep vein of American character which made the Old West, and that it is both his fate and his duty to strengthen the fiber...