Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That did not mean that Quill, one of labor's most devoted followers of the far-left line, had been converted all the way over to the right. But it did mean that Quill had put trade unionism ahead of politics and would be on Phil Murray's side if a showdown with the C.I.O.'s Communist-liners developed...
...Hebrew phrase which is translated as "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2, is tohnvavohu. It is still highly current. Germans use it a lot these days to mean utter tarfu. In Palestine, too, it means chaos. Last week the situation in Palestine could only be described as tohuvavohu...
When civilizations are flourishing, historians have noted, religion is generally at a low ebb; when civilizations disintegrate, religion thrives. Does this mean that religion is a fatal parasite on civilization? Yes, suggested 18th Century Historian Edward Gibbon.* No, says Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: on the contrary, civilizations are merely steppingstones in the progress of religion...
...latter-day religions, is, I think, a leaf taken from the book of Christianity-a leaf torn out and misread. Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we have obviously ... been living on spiritual capital, I mean clinging to Christian practice without possessing the Christian belief...
...yell at you, just kicks you in the shins and makes you get back in line." Not all Harlem teachers were so direct: many were hardworking, kindly people who tried to do their best. But the percentage of mean and ignorant teachers was high...