Word: mathers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mather answered that, if he had had any idea that he was invited there to be Ryan's "spokesman," he would have declined the invitation immediately...
...cannot be a spokesman for anyone but myself," Mather declared. He went on to say that he had assumed he was to present his own views on "Religion and Higher Education," the title of his cancelled speech, as a man of science who was "deeply concerned with matters of religion...
...said that "this gracious old gentleman may be entirely innocent of formal guilt, but he remains a gullible wool-gatherer." The clergyman also referred to Mather as "naive," and claimed that a man is known "by the folks with whom he travels...
...Mather asserted that Ryan did not hear his talk in the Syracuse chapel, where he "explained the distinction between the two conflicts in which the country is engaged: the armed truce between the United States and Russia on one hand, and the ideological warfare between Communism and true democracy, on the other...
...must be strong in a military sense," Mather said, "but at the same time, to destroy the ideas of Communism here by physical force would mean a disastrous defeat for the high ideals of freedom which I am sure are as dear to Father Ryan as they...