Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbound, when bobbies swooped down on the domestic scene. Crimson with anger, John Stewart offered Wilson's diary as proof that the rapscallion was "not a genius" but just plain "mad." Rasped Stewart: "He thinks he's God!" The diary, noted newsmen, was indeed rather bizarre. Excerpt: "How extraordinary that my fame should have corresponded with that of James Dean, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Lonnie Donegan, et al. Like James Joyce and the Dadaists ... I have always wanted to be worshiped ... I must live on-longer than anyone else has ever lived. I am the most serious...
...committee at work on a new hymnal for U.S. Congregational churches turned up a Hungarian hymn, written nearly 300 years ago, that is ripe for revival. Excerpt from Hymn of the Hungarian Galley Slaves...
...excerpt also describes in greater detail than Genesis the terrible plagues that were visited on Pharaoh for taking Sarah. "That night the Most High God sent a pestilential wind to afflict him and all his household, a wind that was evil. And it smote him and all his house and he could not come near her nor did he know her." After two years of this, according to the scroll, not even Sarah's marvelous beauty could sustain the Pharaoh. He restored her to Abraham and sent them both out of Egypt "exceedingly rich in cattle and also...
...next day's headlines, and also could know when and what he should be saying in countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement yesterday on the Bulganin-Eisenhower exchange, Stevenson sought to establish that Eisenhower is the Kremlin's choice in the elections. If so, why did Bulganin come to Stevenson's side on the H-bomb issue...
...Cents offers a unique view of love and life. Excellent subtitles excerpt a delicious irony from the raucous goings-on. It's no power house of witticisms, but it's delicately fresh and funny...