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...Junto," an intellectual self-improvement club of like-minded Philadelphians, and brought out the first three of the famed Poor Richard's Almanacks. Franklin also set down his basic religious outlook, a kind of deism that made him a logical child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close to believing that whatever is is good. In "Articles of Belief" he offers up a characteristically benign prayer, "O Creator, O Father, I believe that thou art Good, and that thou art pleas'd with the Pleasure of thy Children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Sage | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Greek word for yes is neh, and in the main Author Lee is a great neh-sayer. He liked Hellenic warmth, individuality and liveliness (but not the oil-drenched cuisine). He was stirred by the keening, semi-Oriental laments known as Greek music and the sturdy acrobatics of the men's handkerchief dances in the tavernas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mediterranean Triptych | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book Notes | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...final panel on "Propaganda in Education," Stephen E. Fitzgerald, Nieman Fellow; Sidney Mandell, of New York; and Jeanette Sayer, Research Associate in Government, will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUFTS PRESIDENT TO BE CHAIRMAN OF TEACHERS MEETING | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...sportsmen* signed a statement: "Moral Re-Armament is a battle for peace where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic, but it also is a mammoth undertaking. It must be universal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA Week | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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