Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benes had been scheduled to speak over the radio at 7 p.m. He remained silent...
...speech in favor of the Christians. Pagan priests kidnap the senator's daughter (played by Riofreddo's only blonde). Caffari, the bootmaker, playing the senator's role, lifted trembling hands to heaven. Said he: "Though my daughter shall suffer, I will do my duty and speak! I am a Christian!" But the Christians rescue the girl and convert the chief of their persecutors...
...half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned to read music at eight. Says he: "You do not have to know the alphabet to speak well sometimes...
...mass of untheological Christians, God has become, at best, a rather unfairly furtive presence, a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought. At worst, He is conversationally embarrassing. There is scarcely any danger that a member of the neighborhood church will, like Job, hear God speak out of the whirlwind (whirlwinds are dangerous), or that he will be moved to dash down the center aisle, crying, like Isaiah: "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish...
...necessary for Emerson to speak of man in harmony with nature: he wrote of nature in terms that made that harmony unmistakable. When readers compare The Next Development in Man with such products of postwar thought as existentialism, the health of Author Whyte's views become clear, despite the arbitrary opinions scattered through it. When they compare it with the great essays of the past, it is likely to seem a heartening reaffirmation of something they wish they had never forgotten...