Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism can be warded off only by a 'better justice' on the part of the Western world, not by the all too cheap denials in which the fear of the West is now expressing itself. Nor can I confess allegiance to ... [the] 'Christian West'; rather I think that the locus of Christianity is to be sought above today's conflict between East and West...
Before "the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam . . . I took no part, or only a small part, in the 'ecumenical movement,' indeed had all kinds of criticisms to make of it, since all 'movements' as such have always been and still are somewhat suspect in my eyes. But in this case I must confess, using the words in their ordinary sense, 'My mind has changed...
...Bill Durnan was not the most graceful man on the ice. With the padding they wear, goalies seldom are. He seemed to get out of position a lot. This was deceptive on Big Bill's part. "Durnan fools you," said another National Hockey League star last week. "One second he leaves a big hole on one side of the cage, but the next he's in there on top of the puck. He knows he can move fast...
...this Gallic fuss was stirred up by a simple enough story. Lycée Student François Jaubert (Gerard Philipe), too young to take part in World War I, falls passionately in love with Marthe Grangier (Micheline Presle). The devil in François' flesh is more than adolescent sex; it is also a blind adolescent ego, full of the power to hurt. Half-man and half-child, François mockingly helps Marthe select the furniture for the home she is to share with her husband, who is fighting at the front. Then he moves...
...example, Eliot believes that culture includes "Derby Day . . . dog races . . . the dart board . . . boiled cabbage cut into sections . . . the music of Elgar." It also includes the English bishop's characteristic gaiters-in fact, religion and culture tend to become so intertwined that bishops appear to be "a part of English culture, and horses and dogs ... a part of English religion...