Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that roaring crowd, I could hear the voice of the enemy singing one more victory song. Iran is not yet behind the Soviet Curtain, but the Soviets have dangerously softened her up for conquest...
...What are the sources, motives or unconscious origins of Anti-Americanism? First I would put British influences . . . [like] The New Statesman. [It is] the British Bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar school intellectual, the new technical school boys whose knowing twang you hear on every bus, every manic-depressive Orwellite, fissurated Koestlerite, prehistoric Fabian, antique Keir Hardyite, flaming anti-Roman Catholic, like . . . the editor himself, Mr. Kingsley Martin, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin...
Such barriers are common between ministers and laymen, Ribble is convinced, and he thinks he knows why: ministers don't know what their flocks believe or want to hear about. "They . . . assume knowledge in their congregations which isn't there . . . They use words and terms which at one time meant something to people; words which, however, seem not to be understood anymore-words like redemption, conversion and grace...
Most important Jewish prayer is the Shema: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One." This affirmation of monotheism was originally a protest against idolatry. Bernstein retells the legend of how Abraham, left as a boy to keep his father's idol shop, smashed every idol but the largest, and told his father that this one had broken all the others...
...your ears hear what your mouth is declaring," said Abraham...