Word: telling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Chicago, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, a close friend of Nixon's, told a different story. Addressing a convention of We the People, a conservative citizens' organization, Goldwater said: "Let me tell you, Nixon is a conservative. He was as shocked as you were at the invitation to Khrushchev to come to this country." Later, answering a question from the audience, Goldwater elaborated: "I can only relate what the Vice President said to me. He said he was greatly surprised. He had no knowledge of the invitation. He was surprised and disappointed the invitation...
There were signs that the French hierarchy, traditionally jealous of its independence from Rome, was disgruntled by the sharpness of the Vatican's order. "Rome could tell us to stand on our heads and of course we would," said one church official in Paris, "but even upside down we would hold fast to our own view on what is at stake here...
...Whither is God?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must...
According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human short-comings...
...unsophisticated outsider could tell you--who had not become mesemrized by the tripartite division of the Harvard course catalogue--the conclusions you reach on certain subjects in "Hum" are basic to your whole outlook even in "Soc Sci." Dropping God from one's metaphysical inventory does not leave everything else neatly in place; enormous reverberations are set up which it would be perilous to ignore...