Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact of revelation also belongs to a supernatural community-the Old Testament's Chosen People: "God has covenanted with the Jewish people that it shall transcend nature and history to Him alone . . . Without the belief that God has called the Jew to Himself, to call oneself a Jew is but a half-truth...
...eloquent, at times fascinating, celebration of the arts of fiction writing. Wescott, while offering appreciations and portraits of six important modern writers, indirectly produces a memorable insight into how his own complex fiction-writer's mind savors the world. "Nothing is more original, nothing truer to oneself," he quotes Paul Valery, "than to feed on others' minds. Only be sure you digest them. The lion consists of assimilated sheep...
...white communities arguement is that integration will come "through evolution rather than revolution." One might answer that the hiring of a few Negro sales-girls and floor-sweepers in white-owned shops hardly constitutes a revolution, but to say such things is to talk to oneself. Reason is no answer to the constant refrain: "we don't want trouble...
Such self-examination is to be cultivated in children. No one can be perfect, but merely thinking of ways to improve oneself with the help of God (if you believe in a God) is a step in the right direction...
...named for Uncle Sam, but derived from the Polish word sam, meaning by oneself...