Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the week he had flown to Miami to the convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars, to read a speech appealing for support of his foreign military-aid program. It was the kind of routine, uninspired address that Speechwriter Clark Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
...kind of missionary is needed in Africa today, according to Dr. Pope. "The oldtime missionary sat down in a hut with a dozen natives. Today the missionary has largely become the chief of staff of an institution doing work much of which could be and should be done by government agencies. Perhaps missionaries need to get back to the day-to-day life of the African again...The new kind of missionary Africa needs is a moral and spiritual technician [who will] not preach the Gospel vaguely, but relate Christian philosophy to the needs and aspirations of the people where...
...results are already easy to detect even from the loudspeaker end. The old sing-preach-and-pray formula that made radio religion a drug on the market is giving way more & more to the kind of religious programming that competes with secular shows: religious newscasts, interviews, round tables, special events and dramatic shows...
...passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with me. He might know what some of these things are..." A little later: "Let's hold up here a while. There are so many things going by that it kind of makes me dizzy." Then: "I want to prove this thing by going down a little deeper, for competitive reasons, I suppose...
...first in eleven years. But it is not O'Hara's whole intent. Like his earlier taut and febrile novels (Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8), A Rage to Live is shot through with enough gratuitous sex to get itself talked about. But unlike them it attempts the kind of large-scale social portraiture which could easily be the framework of the Great American Novel. Rage is not that. Its wide-lensed look at U.S. small-city life in the first two decades of this century treats the reader to some shrewd but merely surface revelations. Readers will...