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...various German universities, became both a Ph.D. and an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and then in 1914, caught up by the excitement of war, he volunteered to serve as a chaplain in the German army. About two weeks in the front lines were enough to quench his enthusiasm. He remembers writing his father that "this is a new type of war that will mean the end of present European civilization." Tillich now sees in that letter "a moment of vision," for he believes that the First World War did ruin the then-existing civilization of Germany...
Although the McCarthy-Army hearings were in recess, there were plenty of pin wheels whirling around the issues they had raised. By their fitful light and the rockets' red glare, it was plain that the Eisenhower Administration was determined to quench Joe McCarthy...
...even a Japanese professor can live by applause alone. Mrs. Sato, her husband complains, "cannot afford a high-class beauty shop, and my son must quench his desire for a high-class camera. As for myself, I was once accosted by the madame of a certain bar. She said: '. . . Why do you not come to see me, my dear teacher?'" Professor Sato's answer remains his secret, but his conclusion is edifying. "Professors are not made of wood, but are human beings with blood in their veins. Naturally, they are inclined to put their heads into...
...Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the Holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness...
...Drunk-at Your Service." A rheumatic heart, debts and family deaths led him to quench his melancholy in drink. "I have been in a dilemma, either to get drunk to forget these miseries, or to hang myself ... I, of two evils, have chosen the least, & am very drunk-at your service...