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...breakdown of the "optimistic world view" of the 19th century with the fall of the medieval world order in Luther's time. He writes: "His plight, like ours, is a profound sense of the uncertainty of human existence. We are not secure in this world, but in constant peril ... All human roads seek to avoid these deep valleys. It was Luther's experience that God purposely leads us through them in order to make us receptive to His Word...
...position almost unique in U.S. history ... In Europe, the reaction [to his report] was dramatic. Britain . . . breathed an almost audible sigh of relief. Italians remembered their past glories. The non-Communists of France were lifted up. The whole of Western Europe, living under the shadow of the great peril, was more heartened than at any time in four years of daily threats, unending scares . . ." After this statement appeared, TIME heard no dissent or criticism of its appraisal of Eisenhower's achievement...
...Nixon and all public officials, these words of William Penn (in Fruits of Solitude): "Let Men have sufficient Salaries and exceed them at their Peril...
Virginia. This seems to be the Southern state in which Stevenson is in greatest peril. In 1948, Virginia voted 41.4% Republican, plus 10.4% Dixiecrat. Eisenhower is far more popular than Dewey was in 1948, but Stevenson is more popular than Truman was. Leaders of the Byrd machine, one of the most effective (and cleanest) in the U.S., have agreed to disagree in the 1952 election. Some are working for Stevenson, some for Ike and some are following the example of the boss, Senator Harry F. Byrd, who is "picking apples" and not saying how he will vote. If Byrd comes...
...Squanto, the Indian who acted as interpreter for the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, had learned some of his English in Newfoundland. *Since 1869 a song with the defiant punch line "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf!" had become an unofficial national anthem of Newfoundland...