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...Biblical-Hebraic faith must remain the bearer of the religious content of our culture. The faith of the Bible seeks to penetrate the mysteries and meanings of life above and beyond the rational intelligibilities. It is not for this reason 'otherworldly.' Rather it has a firm grasp upon the meanings of life in history and does not reduce them to meaninglessness by seeking to comprehend them too simply into some realm of rationality. 'Deeper than life the plan of life doth...
...golf course, has little interest in the running of Government. In cold fact, the President is at his desk daily at 7:45 a.m. for the morning's round of appointments, spends most of his afternoons doing the essential staff work that the presidency requires, consistently shows his grasp of key principles and detail at Cabinet and top-level strategy meetings. Moreover, by delegating details, the President heads a well-oiled, relatively trouble-free Administration where the ripe feuds and conflicting policies of Truman-Roosevelt days are unheard of. White House staffers acknowledge that Ike has recently taken...
...Golden Arm), a golden-haired Manhattan society beauty of the '205 (The Eddy Duchin Story). In each picture, the major acting burden fell on others, while Newcomer Novak managed to scale the heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...
...million out of the legislature for four TB hospitals, plus millions more for other attacks on the disease. But last week Crusader Edwards, now 73, was accused by Florida's leading TB specialists of deliberately wrecking the program he had so laboriously set up. Their argument: Edwards cannot grasp just how successful his own crusade and the doctors' new drugs have been...
...difference between the Mathes and Medina instructions might be "subtle and difficult to grasp," wrote Harlan, but this only proves the need for requiring clarity...