Word: robinsons
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Road to Immortality. Political assassination, said Dr. G. Wilse Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., did not change from the time of Cain to that of the Medici, but in the modern era there has been a change in the character of the assassin. Today's hired killer wants no part of any attempt on the life of a prominent political figure. Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth...
Booth, said Dr. Robinson, had told his friends: "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Lincoln!" This concept may motivate more assassins than is now realized. "It may have been a major motivation to Lee Oswald. We know Oswald was unhappy in school, in the Marine Corps, in the Soviet Union, and in his own country. He probably would have tried to become an anarchist if he had lived around...
...Crimson swept three of the four bottom-of-the-ladder singles matches and both doubles. Terry Robinson, captain Sandy Walker, and Tom James turned in three-set wins, before John Vinton lost to Don MacAusland, 7-5, 6-4, in the tenth match...
...bishop is in the United States on a month-long speaking tour to promote his controversial best-seller, Honest to God. In that book, Robinson pleaded for the re-examination of traditional statements of Christian doctrines which have become incomprehensible to non-Christians...
...Bishop Robinson explained that his purpose in writing the book had been "to try as a Christian to release the power of the gospel, to try to make real for our generation the God of the Bible. Consequently he had tried to show that theology is not primarily concerned with the mythological descriptions which puzzle many non-Christians. Rather, according to the bishop, theology is about ordinary experience in depth, at the level of ultimate concern," and as such is of interest...