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...team coaxed the Carter group into allowing seven cameras in the theater to provide closeups, zoom shots and split-screen lens movement that may help animate Ford's wooden image. He is being coached on certain words that give him trouble. He tends, for example, to say "judg-uh-ment," stretching the word into three syllables. None of this worries his close friend Senator Robert Griffin very much: "People don't expect much from Ford and that will be a real advantage. Nixon was supposed to be a super debater, and look what happened...
...conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means and not an end ; it encour ages class warfare . . ." But the headway made by Communism is in itself a judg ment on church and society, for in many minds Communism has replaced the church as the challenger of oppression and poverty. The church's best rebuttal is to "be a fearless witness against political, social and economic injustice." A committee headed by Bishops J.W.C...
...writers for not deciphering that book?they wished to assure the triumph of right, rebuild the moral unity of the nation, and they had no time to think of literature. . . . But ... art is the most real of all things, the sternest school in life and truly the 'Last Judg- ment...
...judges have become widely known because of the part they had in any given trial. Sir George Jeffreys, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, "whose yell of fury sounded like the thunder of the Judg ment Day," after presiding (1685) at a series of trials known to history as the "bloody assizes," gained what Macaulay has described as "an unenviable immortality." (Macaulay's History of England, chapter IV.) Kenesaw Mountain Landis, tsar of professional baseball, became a national character when, as U. S. District Judge, Northern District of Illinois, he tried (1907) the Standard...
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