Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-have witnessed an unprecedented evolution of their churches' attitude toward marriage and sex. In 1956, the United Lutheran Church in America abolished the denomination's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who showed repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union," declared the delegates, "but God in his love does accept the sinner." The Methodist Social Creed was similarly revised to allow a minister to perform a marriage when the divorced person "is sufficiently aware of the factors leading to the failure...
...less a person than Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said: "Socialism without post office, telegraph and machines is an empty phrase." So is socialism without love, according to a letter from Citizen Y. Alyansky of Leningrad printed in Pravda last week. Alyansky decided at 11 o'clock one evening to send a message of love to a girl friend by night letter. He dialed 06, the special Leningrad number for sending telegrams. When the operator insisted on knowing the nature of the telegram before he dictated it, he said in some embarrassment: "You see, it is an expression of love...
...Hotspur," reads one note, "said we should have had the battle, but for those cursed stars. Hotspur said he was indignant to be killed by such a person as Prince Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food...
...Deterianation." Gellinoff was patient. But after almost two months of buffoonery, Gellinoff excused the jury from the courtroom. "Now shut up and listen to me," he told Kayo. "You are a faking, lying, scheming, conniving person. I have an open mind as to whether you are guilty, but I want you to know, and I put it in the record, that I think you are sneaky and tricky. I now, on your behalf, move for a mistrial in this case-and deny the motion." Fifteen days later-after a four-hour summation in which Kayo offered to pay jurors...
THROUGHOUT that long weekend in late November, 1963, it was impossible to conceive of John Kennedy as a dead person. We spent hours trying to disbelieve and, finally, hours isolated in a personal, idiosyncratic kind of grief. Never, because we were so convulsed, did we imagine what William Manchester has opened...