Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wife No. 1, Aggatha Ann,* marched beside him for 33 years. In 1866 she fell ill, and as "Mortification" set in, Lee "watched with her all Night, lifting & turning her in Bed about every 5 minits." As in an Old Testament tale, the huge family assembles at the deathbed to hear the dying injunction, while son Joseph rides to the mountain for a "Bucket of Snow" to cool his mother's lips. Meanwhile, "the Lumber previously dressed up" stands ready for the coffin-for this is a pioneer story in which prayer and practicality are never far apart...
...rather be expelled by him than be praised by anyone else," a nineteenth century undergraduate once commented. His testament, sincere if overstated, was a tribute to the greatness of the late LeBarron Russell Briggs '75, confidant of "Copey" and "Kitty" in the days of "too much teaching and too little studying" in Harvard College...
What an appalling display of fuzzy thinking in some of the world's leading editorial comment! The moral law as defined in the New Testament still stands as our civilization's highest criterion, no matter how outmoded some people may feel it has become...
...accident that Federal Union began to disappear just as the United Nations entered the scene. For if Streit's Union New was the Genesis of the world government movement, the United Nations and the Cold War caused the writing of a whole New Testament. Or rather, a number of diverse testaments, each of which answered differently the critical questions facing supporters of world government: Should they work through the U.N.? Skirt it? Or should they perhaps forget about blueprinting an organization which the Cold War may have made impracticable...
...well advanced when Aleijadinho was given the commission that became his crowning life's work, decorating the Church of Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. For the stairway he chose as his subject not the curved elegance of cherubim and seraphim that had made him famous, but stern Old Testament prophets. In them he found a wrath. compassion and inspiration that matched his own. He sculpted their squat figures in bizarre oriental costumes, twisted and tormented in soapstone (which is soft when quarried, grows hard with age). Before the last one was finished, in 1805, Aleijadinho was working with mallet...