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...Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls out for God and gets no answer, he desperately yells: " 'Mike' . . . and God answered . . . How mysterious are the ways of the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Word: Pop Preaching | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...Harvard Law School, through its faculty activity and its teaching, could shift its concern even slightly from the generally too narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution. Even in our field it may be true that 'the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...organizer for the benefit observed philosophically: "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away." On the debit side were Lynda Bird Johnson and Actor George Hamilton, who couldn't make it to Manhattan for the U.S. premiere of the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton version of The Taming of the Shrew. Among the credits were Bobby Kennedy and his sister Pat Lawford, joining a glittering list of 500 who paid $100 each to help the Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured. But it was the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who drew shrieks from the people watchers outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...riseth and setteth, giveth and taketh away. Tout lasse, tout casse, tout passe. Sic transit gloria mundi. Thus passes away the glory of the daylight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afternoons Disappear Into Vanishing Sunset | 10/29/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard giveth, Harvard taketh away. In the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe, the world will be astonished to note, LSD gets panned by none other than Allan Y. Cohen, teaching fellow in Social Relations, and one of the first and most militant of the psychedelic proseletyzers...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Former Harvard Acid-Head Says LSD Doesn't Get You to Heaven | 8/9/1966 | See Source »

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