Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialist Norman Thomas sounded off in Houston. On free enterprise: "All the recent business mergers and consolidations make absurd the old-line talk of free enterprise. The only free enterprise in America today is small boys who shoot marbles for keeps." On the Kelly-Rainier merger "If Grace had married the mayor of Las Vegas, she wouldn't have had to produce a son to keep the place going...
...Most ministers had what Sociologist Blizzard calls a "theological concept" of the church. Of these, 37% were "individualistic" ("The church is the place where an individual has a personal experience with God"), and 33% were "sacramental" ("The church is the mediator of God's grace"). Thirty percent held a "communal" view of the church ("We are a fellowship of believers...
...Right livelihood, 6) Right effort, 7) Right mindfulness, 8) Right concentration. At the end is nirvana. But Buddha, who talked not at all of God, refused ever to go into details about what is meant by nirvana. His dying words underlined his emphasis on human effort rather than on grace or magic: "Work out your salvation with diligence...
...Swan. A pretty, witty fairy tale, written by Ferenc Molnar, in which Grace Kelly is won by Prince Charming Alec Guinness (TIME, April...
...full of moodiness and intensity, becomes a young poet dissatisfied with success. In disgust he turns his search for meaning to the sayings spelled out by a horse which has followed him home. His wife, Eurydice, however, is left bored by the proceedings, and Susan Howe lends much grace and a sort of charming coquetry to her attempts to snap Orpheus out of his infatuation with the horse. In another departure Cocteau introduces an entirely new character, a glazier named Heurtebise who shows up to replace the pane of glass which Eurydice breaks for good luck. Heurtebise is ultimately identified...