Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Nikita Khrushchev put a slow fuse on his threat to turn Berlin over to the East German authorities, he did not act capriciously. In both preceding crises of 1958, the United States reacted more impetuously than the Soviets had calculated; the six-month period of grace on the Berlin issue was designed to provide time enough so that doubt and dissension could germinate among the Western allies...
Unarmed in Paradise is written with rare grace and honesty. It is one of the best love stories to come along in many a year...
Student exam stories are of the "there but for the grace of God" school:--about the boy who slept through his exam on the steps of Mem Hall, or the hopped-up case who wrote his answers on one line...
...both of them. On mission: "The church comes to man not in his extremity, at the point where all else fails. The church stands not on the outskirts but in the center of the town." On unity: "I believe we are finding our way, by God's grace, into a deeper unity within our own communion. We are coming to understand more clearly what it means to belong to a church which is both Catholic and Reformed. This is not an uneasy compromise . . . the two parts of our heritage are not incompatible and opposed elements, but are essential aspects...
Humbug or Healer? To his fine gallery of free men-Gully Jimson in The Horse's Mouth, Chester Nimmo in Prisoner of Grace-Cary has added the Rev. Walter Preedy. In this hollow-chested, egotistical evangelist, the sense of God is like a torment. His specialty is faith healing. To him and to his followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This...