Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace of soul is "born of the tranquillity of order, wherein the senses are subject to the reason, the reason to faith, and the whole personality to the Will of God. The true peace ... is deepened, not disturbed, by the crosses, checks and disquietudes of the world, for they are welcomed as coming from the hands of the Loving Father. This true peace can never come from adjustment to the world, for if the world is wicked, adjustments to wickedness make us worse. It comes only from identification of one's own will with the Will...
...lives in the realm of nature and of social relations, is part and parcel of the material world and of society . . . The churches must realize that they have their social duties, and must serve under whatever political regime ... In order to live [under the Communists], they must become their words in concrete social action. Therefore, a concrete progress of service is a necessity...
...Last week the Keeley Institute of Dwight Ill., in a survey of 13,471 alcoholic patients given "the cure" over the past 18 years, found that by occupation, farmers topped its list of drinkers. Others in the top ten, in order: salesmen, merchants, mechanics, clerks, lawyers, foremen and managers, railroaders, physicians, manufacturers...
...grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking the law into his own hands). Before finally arriving at the right answer, Payne and his vigilante friends string up a number of their enemies to nearby trees...
Suprugov has forced his first wife to have an abortion for sheer terror at the thought of the fuss a child would make. In his abnormal ache for sympathy, he falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...