Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mormons today do not expect divine intervention in this sinful world before they have exhausted their own final resources. And 100 years after the Mormons' perilous trek to Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is far from being exhausted. In its self-made oasis on the Western desert, it is flourishing like a green bay tree...
Triumph. To the Latter-day Saints, who once expected the nations of the earth to rally unto them, and who are still fond of calling themselves "a peculiar people," these tangible triumphs constitute only a partial fulfillment of destiny. But, considered coldly, they seem almost incredible...
...present pulling and straining of the Soviet satellites, anxious to get into the only prospect that offers Europe hope, attests the wisdom of the latter argument-from a. Soviet standpoint. Where will Poland find a market for her coal? How can the Russians pay Czechoslovakia for quality factory products? When Molotov at Paris broke Europe along the Stettin-Trieste line, most of the best insurance risks, most of 'he countries with high labor productivity, were not on Molotov's side of the line. If Central and Western Europe begin to revive with U.S. help, Molotov may well find...
...straightly enough to win the genuine sympathy of the audience. The very funny scene in which he pretends to be mad is Congreve's best, and Gielgud's ability to handle more serious roles is shown in his tragi-comie declaration of love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng and Jessie Evans, as two rather rough-hewn characters, and John Kidd...
...these 16 profound and erudite essays (which are now collected in book form for the first time), readers will find themselves standing at the latter end of a span that covers 200 years of intellectual and social development, and stems from cultural traditions as old as the Renaissance...