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...third chapter of John's Gospel, Jesus tells the Pharisee Nicodemus that only those who are spiritually "born again" will enter the kingdom of God. The passage?and the phrase???are favorites of Evangelical Protestants; their faith emphasizes the personal experience of turning to Christ...
...event was spread by a kind of underground network. "If you were part of this culture," said one pilgrim back from Bethel, "you had to be there." In spite of the grownup suspicions and fears about the event. Bethel produced a feeling of friendship, camaraderie and ?an overused phrase???a sense of love among those present. This yearning for togetherness was demonstrated in countless major and minor ways: the agape-like sharing of food and shelter by total strangers: the lack of overt hostility despite conditions that were ripe for panic and chaos; the altruistic ministrations...
...Both setbacks stemmed from a single mistake made a decade ago, and never corrected in spite of mounting evidence. The mistake: that the victory of France's allies over Germany somehow meant that France had recovered from the basic political weakness that caused its collapse in 1940. The postwar phrase???the Big Four?was a misnomer; France is not a great power, but a great civilization, politically paralyzed. EDC asked France to show a self-confidence it did not possess. Indo-China asked France to show a will to win it did not possess. A new Premier, Pierre Mend?...
...Vienna, all was peaceful down the broad, leafy boulevards. But at the Central Cemetery, the Super-Reporter found a scene worthy of his typewriter. He mentally jotted down a neat phrase???"a mass burial for men and women who died in a mass movement"?and squared off to gather the scene's color and emotion...
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