Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that our story and the story of Job come closest to each other. Job is not answered in the Bible by the voice out of the whirling wind. He is silenced by it . . . by the might and majesty and magnificence of the creation. He is brought, not to know, but to see. As we also have been brought...
...when, in that letter, he went on to spell his answer out in words, it was not an answer made of words: it was an answer made of life: 'When I try to put it all into a phrase I say, "Man can embody truth but he cannot know...
...tumultuously abnormal upbringing, he seemed destined to develop a taste for high life and supercharged women. Instead, he devoted his energies to fast cars. While other rich young men danced and drank the night through, Lance got his regular eleven hours sleep, spent waking moments soaking up know-how from veteran racers...
...that science students must cram themselves with a classical language. "I'm not saying there aren't minds that don't expand with the classics," he said. "But all real advances in knowledge come from people who are doing what they like to do. We all know the effect on children of compulsory spinach and compulsory rhubarb; it's the same with compulsory learning. They say, 'It's spinach and to hell with...
...send men to certain death in suicide attacks. After war's end lifted their censorship, the Japanese joined in the controversy, took potshots at their own side with charges that recently drafted civilians had been sent out as Kamikaze flyers to save the professionals. Authors Inoguchi and Nakajima know better. They were staff officers in the Imperial Navy's First Air Fleet under Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who organized the first avowedly suicidal attacks. From the pilots' last letters home, the authors draw their most revealing and convincing testimony to the Kamikaze flyers' eagerness...