Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Methodist, I cannot stomach this trend, which is, I believe, of the Evil One. The trend, by establishing cold formalism in the church, stamps out the fire which imbued early Christians with zeal and a passion for souls...
...Western public philosophy is a. shambles. Ways believes, for two principal reasons. First, modern thought has lost the sense of whole truths in a passion for fragmentation and the claim of science to a custody of "the only valid paths to knowledge." Secondly, the nation's intellectuals have lost touch with the magnificent heritage of Christian civilization that the founding fathers understood very well. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes...
...quietly, deftly, on the sunny side of discreet. "Suzy is just taking a vacation," said her French husband, who has been seeing her now and then. "Ah oui," said the gossips knowingly. Meanwhile, sentimental fans remembered Suzy as the young heroine of Ten North Frederick, who responds to the passion of her roommate's father, Gary Cooper. And, coincidentally, Actor Cooper, 58, is the real-life son-in-law of Paul V. Shields...
That truth is largely concerned with the growth to maturity of all the different people called "I," who live in a small, unnamed Southern town-and occasionally travel out from it. Their various roads to maturity are those of the whole world: love and labor, passion and violence are part of the process; so are dreams of the past, dreams of the future and dreams induced by marijuana and stronger "mainline" stuff. Many of the stories deal with the eternal masculine tension between sex and love. Writes Anderson in "Signifying," a tale of a pretty young Philadelphia schoolteacher...
Conversation Needed. The black-robed, bearded patriarchs and metropolitans of Orthodoxy have always been somewhat tentative about their association wjth the World Council. They look with suspicion on the Protestant passion for missions, which they see as a potential peril to themselves, are wary of the proposed merger of the World Council and the International Missionary Council. Said Alexandria's Metropolitan Parthenios of Carthage: "Go slow. I don't know why I fear this, but I fear...