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...Framers were setting things up, they viewed him with apprehension." Still, he says, "impeachment of the President should be a last resort." Indeed some early advice on the subject endures. "The power of impeachment," said the English Solicitor General in 1691, "ought to be, like Goliath's sword, kept in the temple, and not used but on great occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Impeachment | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...from the Devil and returned to God." So wrote Philosopher Jacques Maritain to Poet Jean Cocteau 47 years ago. And when Maritain died on April 28, at the age of 90, no modern Roman Catholic had done more than this French layman to make the mind a subtly flashing sword in the defense of faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pilgrim of the Absolute | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...novel. War Is Not for Heroes, Ehud Ben-Ezer expressed a far different emotion that also reflects the ambiguity of the Sabra attitude. Before dying in battle, Ben-Ezer's young war hero declares, "We have become slaves of the sword, not masters of it. And in order to protect ourselves against the cruelty outside, we have become narrow-minded and cruel in our own homes." Within the heart of the Sabra, it has been said, Athens and Sparta are forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Dream after 25 Years: Triumph and Trial | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...boredom to two popular inspirational works on the lives of the saints and the life of Christ, and his long process of conversion began. Months later, at the Benedictine abbey of Montserrat, he exchanged his gentleman's clothes for a rough pilgrim's habit and dedicated his sword and dagger to the shrine's famed Black Virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

CYRANO. After weeks of brave resistance to The Crimson's devastating pan, the old boy is about to sheathe his sword, bench his nose and flee to the wilds of New York. Closing, that is, after Saturday's performance, 7:30 at the Colonial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the Stage | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

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