Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...
...have her picture (and pictures of friends and family) taken and send them along. She could send a pocketknife or, better still, a pocket Bible. Over 49% of the soldiers and 58% of the sailors rated Bibles swell, would rather have the whole thing than just the New Testament...
...goat-bearded, argumentative agnostic was London University's Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad, who once asserted (on the dust-jacket of his Testament of Joad): "I can explain anything to anybody." For the last 18 months he has carried out this threat on a popular BBC radio program, "The Brains Trust." But of late radio fans have noticed a decreasing cockiness in Brain Truster Joad's answers. One shrewd lady listener wrote him that he seemed to be walking a tightrope between the mountain of faith and the abyss of doubt, and that she prayed every night...
Radio's most theatrically baleful voice -that of short, redheaded, 43-year-old Commentator Harold Thomas Henry ("Boake") Carter-may, it appears, have arisen out of the state of its owner's psyche. For last week Commentator Carter expounded his conversion to a new Old Testament religion...
...Friends who find themselves unable to support their pacifism by tradition or creed sometimes defend it by saying that it is the requirement of Christianity. They have a case. The spirit enjoined by the New Testament was plainly one of love and mercy. But surely it was a spirit that Jesus enjoined, not an iron rule. If keeping a rule involved worse evils than its breach, Jesus broke it without a qualm. . . . It is impossible to make Jesus out to be a consistent pacifist even in personal relations, let alone international relations...