Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prizefighting, his father said, "Why not? You're strong enough. Try." But his mother used to spank him for fighting, and still disapproves. She never watches his fights, or hears them on the radio. Instead, she lights a candle to St. Anthony and then talks with a neighbor, "just to get it out of my mind. But once in a while we look at the clock and I pray-like in my mind. I pray neither of them gets hurt. After all, the other boy has a mother, too; he is human. Also," she adds with a smile...
...take comfort, however, from Swedenborg's assertion that "such as are not idolaters acknowledge the Lord (Christ) to be the only God" and that charity or good toward the neighbor is the Way of Life. Those who are religious in this fashion go to heaven, baptized or (scandalous heresy) unbaptized and see God face to face. They are not evil angels nor are they immortal but humans, differing only slightly from...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has long suffered from political schizophrenia : he has consistently cracked down on Communists at home while being pally with Communists abroad-especially with India's neighbor, Red China. But lately
Moreover, once a sale is made, word-of-mouth advertising helps make others. Almost every buyer of a plan gladly signs a card introducing the I.D.S. man to another friend or neighbor (doctors and professional men are the best customers, closely followed by farmers). If anybody fails to meet his second payment, I.D.S. refunds the first one and cancels the deal. I.D.S. feels "that man will just be trouble...
...some humanists have felt an urge to formalize their beliefs. Last week, in the quiet lecture halls of the University of Amsterdam, 250 delegates from Europe and the U.S. met for the first International Congress on Humanism and Ethical Culture. In the auditorium, a British lady asked her Dutch neighbor how humanism was doing in the U.S. "I don't think they're strong in numbers," was the reply, "but there's a lot of humanist spirit there. They put 'In God We Trust' on their pennies, but I think they put more faith...