Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STENDHAL (506 pp.)-Matthew Josephson-Doubleday...
...Like most "definitive" biographies, Matthew Josephson's Stendhal is heavily ballasted with tinkling trifles. It lacks, for all its efforts, the dazzling high spiritedness that poured like a flood out of Stendhal himself. Nonetheless, like Josephson's Victor Hugo (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942), it is the best and most comprehensive English study of its subject, a careful collection of material, skillfully assembled and organized...
Life at La Venta. According to Dr. Matthew Stirling, who headed the dig, the La Ventas were peaceful, since none of their carvings were warlike. They built no cities, but lived in simple thatched huts. They were certainly religious, for the priests who presided over their temples possessed almost all the wealth...
Divorce. The present Episcopalian canon on divorce is based on Christ's saying, But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. -Matthew 5:32. The only divorced person who may ever be remarried with the Church's blessing is the innocent party in a divorce granted on grounds of adultery. The Convention's 17-man Joint Commission on Holy Matrimony recommended that bishops should be allowed discretion to permit church marriages...
...have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matthew...