Word: greatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great literature, secular and religious, is often the basis for blather...
Nikita Khrushchev holds in his raw hands great potential destructive force with a sensitive trigger. Realizing this threat, how can anyone afford to ignore him because of his past? Let's get down to the facts and put aside that which is not pertinent...
...With a great number of younger Mississippians, a number that would frighten our embittered elders, I deplore the prejudice and ugliness of Mississippi politics as displayed in the recent primary elections. When we who love our state have a more powerful voice, we will be an effective instrument for lifting Mississippi from the mire of such as this...
...become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history...
...question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human short-comings! And a substantial majority, though naturally denying the orthodox doctrine of the Incarnation, still feel that "Christ should be regarded...as a very great prophet or teacher." "Whether or not he lived, many of his teachings are well worthwhile," an agnostic notes marginally. "The highest ideal of man," another adds; and a former Conservative Jew sees him as a "beautiful and profound symbol...