Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muster only 17% "well informed" students, compared with the College's 34%. But Texas students were among the most willing to bear arms. Southern students in general rated higher in combativeness and lower in information about what they were fighting for. Nor was there much of a feeling of guilt among students in the ten colleges because their preferred educational status kept them civilians. When asked whether they "found themselves apologizing to people for not being in uniform," those who didn't want to be in uniform say they didn't. Most of the apologia came from those who were...
TIME says Novelist Gary "is the very antithesis of Graham Greene, the guilt-ridden Catholic who keeps pecking away at the problem of personal salvation . . ." Please do not compare Joyce Gary with that genius, Graham Greene. Mr. Greene has set out to "teach" the world. He illustrates the purpose of man and what man is for: namely, the salvation of his soul . . . All Mr. Gary does is to tell us of a particular...
...Greene is hardly deserving of the title, "guilt-ridden." As for his "pecking away at the problem of salvation," might we not say that he has dug his way through to the hard core of the problem...
Died. Bishop Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer, 71, head (since 1946) of the Methodist Church in Germany, an organizer of the Council of Evangelical Churches of Germany, chairman of a 1945 Methodist congress in Frankfurt which passed resolutions of "guilt and repentance" for Germany's war guilt; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...very antithesis of Graham Greene, the guilt-ridden Catholic who keeps pecking away at the problem of personal salvation. Prisoner of Grace (though Gary says it wasn't) might have been written as an answer to Greene's End of the Affair. Personal salvation, Gary would say, is too selfish a business to bother about: his heroine is more concerned with her two dependent men than with her own rescue. Moral law? Justice? As far as human beings should concern themselves, "the world consists entirely of exceptions...