Word: immanuel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume of Philosopher Immanuel Kant...
...Lola, the Queen of the Blue Angel. With black-stockinged legs spread wide and arms carelessly akimbo she stands at the center of all gazes. In a low and vibrant voice she sings her way into the heart--and libido--of even so staid a person as Professor Immanuel Rath...
Socialism Second. After a three-year course at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary on a scholarship, Bechtel went' to Butte in 1913 as pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church there. Salary: $75 a month. His angry pro-labor sermons won him the support of the Socialists, who ran him for state senator. Though he refused to campaign, he won anyway. Senator Bechtel introduced bills for adult education and workmen's compensation and against capital punishment. But when he introduced a bill for Prohibition, the Socialists dropped...
They appear in The Vagrant Mood, a slim volume of urbane table talk ranging from the decline of the detective story to Immanuel Kant's theory of beauty, from Edmund Burke's literary style to a profile of an eccentric 10th century English snob named Augustus Hare. Proof that the "Old Party's" writing hand has lost none of its cunning is the fact that he can make such unlikely subjects just as likeable reading as his personal memories of Novelists Henry James and H. G. Wells, which he tucks into the same book...
Fundamentalists replied quickly and in anger. Said the Rev. Harold W. Morris, preaching to his First Church of the Nazarene congregation: "We believe all that he makes fun of." Pastor David Calhoun of Immanuel Baptist Church warningly quoted St. Paul (I. Timothy 4:1): "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." Wrote an angry letter writer to the El Paso Times, in a flood of protest mail: "I may not have as many college . . . degrees to my name as [Wright], but I have one degree, a God-conferred degree of B.A. (Born Again), which...