Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Vera Brittain is a born tract writer who persists in doing novels. In 1933, she made her reputation with Testament of Youth, a passionate, forthright, nonfictional assessment of the lost generation. Author Brittain has never again written so movingly...
...latest novel, Born 1925, begins in point of time where Testament left off. Hero Robert Carbury is a veteran of World War I whose sense of guilt (he won the Victoria Cross for killing Germans) leads him to pacificism and the ministry. His actress wife admires Robert but goes on loving her first husband, lost in the war. Their son and daughter, growing up in the foreshadow of a second war, find father's Christlike character dull. Son Adrian joins the army in a rebellious climax to years of boyhood revolt, but at the end, in the ruins...
...strongest influences in leading Gandhi toward Satyagraha was the New Testament. Said he: "When I read in the Sermon on the Mount such passages as 'Resist not him that is evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on thy cheek turn to him the other also' ... I was simply overjoyed . . ." Gandhi once wrote that a living faith in nonviolence "is impossible without a living faith in God. A nonviolent man can do nothing save by the power and grace of God. Without it he won't have the courage to die without anger, without fear and without retaliation...
...rugged men of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had just played seven concerts in eight days, but when Conductor Leonard Bernstein called for volunteers, 35 stepped forward. Crowded into two dusty buses, they crossed the Negeb desert to give the battle-scarred Old Testament town of Beersheba the first symphony concert of its history...
Noting that the New Testament contains no description of Christ's appearance, Devoe insists that it does tell "enough about the manner of his speech and the habits of his days to give us at least the surety that he was not frail, not pale, not piously smirking, not actorishly barbered and finical. He was one who spoke homely and strong...