Word: saviour
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...critical perceptions are sometimes bemusing: she once described Bob Hope as "our American Noel Coward." "For more than 2,000 years," she once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world have tried to follow in the footsteps of our Saviour...
...many villagers are arguing that Hans's chestful of medals and his smoking, drinking and going with girls disqualify him. They doubt also that he would have the flexibility of recent Christs. Anton Lang, who played the Christus in 1900, 1910 and 1922, was a sad, merciful Saviour. Alois Lang played the role as King of the Jews-a firm, determined ruler. "The Bible says Christ is both," one villager explained, "and so Christ has to make up his mind which he wants to be. The problem is that not one of our young men has made...
...thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge of communism, which he describes in a lurid Budenz-like chapter...
...unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord...
...proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning of the awful condition set down by our Saviour for those who would be His disciples: If any man come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow...