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...Every prophet-leader has his period of withdrawal and retreat. Ho's came when he got out of a Hong Kong prison with an aggravated case of TB. He spent the next four years (1934-38) in Russia, savoring recuperation as a "scholar recluse." In 1941, he slipped back into his homeland. For him, the return marked a kind of reincarnation, and after setting up the League for Vietnamese Independence (nicknamed the Viet Minh), he renamed himself Ho Chi Minh ("Ho who enlightens...
Pointing out parenthetically that many apparently secular books may be religious in their treatment of such subjects as evolution, the three dissenters. Justices Douglas, Fortas and Black, all heatedly argued that the First Amendment's rule was being badly compromised. Said Black: "It requires no prophet to foresee that on the argument used to support this law others could be upheld providing for funds to buy property on which to erect religious school buildings, to pay the salaries of religious school teachers, and finally to pick up all the bills for religious schools. I still subscribe to the belief...
There are two James Baldwins, equally passionate, at times equally gifted. One is the racial rhetorician, the polished pamphleteer, the literate prophet who warned about The Fire Next Time long before the words, "Burn, baby, burn" raged in the land. His preachments remain intensely articulate, painfully-and plainly-relevant...
...inscription with the latest work on Phoenician writing. He found that it contained nuances and quirks of Phoenician style that could not have been known to a 19th century forger. "The alternatives are either that the inscription is genuine," said Gordon, "or that the guy was a great prophet...
...Christian, 1968. That Christ's law was one of love and not legality is made so evident in the Essay that it must take on a new meaning to all Christians. You have presented a picture of Jesus Christ that removes the image of him as a proverbial prophet of a meaningless message and shows him to be the great man of love-a love that extends out not for simply the people of his day but an atemporal, everlasting love. The ultimate success of the Essay lies in the hearts...