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Finally, he warned his listeners, "the mere creation of international organizations does not relieve us of our individual responsibilities. It falls to the righteous man individually to do what he can and to form with his friends alliances that are manifestly crowned with justice and honor...
...story. He warns: "The marks left by one individual on another are eternal, and not with impunity can some other's destiny cross our own." Elisabeth, in despair, recognizes that her maternal love for Robert had concealed the extravagant sexuality of a starved woman. Even self-righteous Pierre has a brief moment of horror at what his retailing of gossip has caused, but he quickly comforts himself with the thought that there had been time for Robert to make a confession and receive the last sacraments...
After three more hours of speechmaking, the talk-tired Senate, backing up Bill Knowland, voted to bypass the Eastland roadblock under Rule 14. The tally: 45 to 39, with eleven Northern Democrats (not including Oregon's civil righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood...
...finger-waving, prophetic, Victorian, virtuous, gloomy, saintly, fanatical, guilt-ridden, tubercular, self-righteous, animal farming but essentially Christian down-and-outer was, before these things, a writer. He believed that writers have messages. In spite of the grand variety of prejudices social critics now project at him, his I think was simple...
...Three Messiahs. Scholars doubt whether the Righteous Teacher will ever be specifically identified. The important question is whether, as has been suggested, he prefigured Christ in any sense. Actually, scholars are now generally convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return...