Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company with Cameron. Later, he appeared before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and used the Fifth Amendment when asked if he was a secret member of the Communist Party. Cameron joined up with tweedy, seedy Albert Kahn, a veteran Soviet apologist. Among the firm's recent products: The Testament of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Associated with Cameron and Kahn is Carl Aldo Marzani, wartime OSS employee, who served two years in prison for hiding his Communist Party affiliations in a federal loyalty test...
...fanatic Wehrmacht general, commanding a force of last-ditch Nazis, held out against the Russians in a Bohemian mountain redoubt. Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner, 62, had been named by Hitler to succeed him as commander-in-chief of the German army; in the Fuhrer's last testament his name ranked sixth.* In pursuance of the dead Fuhrer's wishes, Schorner went on fighting, ruthlessly killing hundreds of his own men who resisted the futile slaughter. He finally deserted his outfit disguised as a Tyrolean peasant, gave himself up to the U.S. 42nd Infantry Division. The Americans turned...
George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will lecture on the New Testament in Humanities 124. Titled "Introduction to the Now Testament," the course will be concerned mainly with the exposition of New Testament content and doctrine...
Foundation of Foundations. The Guide to the Perplexed applied Aristotelian philosophy to Judaism, as Aquinas applied it to Christianity. Maimonides' interlocking of Aristotelian metaphysics with the ethical and personal religion of the Old Testament is one of the great philosophical achievements of the Middle Ages...
...What about Christ? I don't think that it would be desirable for children to grow up in ignorance of the New Testament. We don't want a generation who don't know what Christmas and Easter mean, who have never heard of the star of Bethlehem or the angel at the door of the tomb ... All I urge is that [the child] should hear them treated frankly as legends . . . There was a real Trojan War and Hector and Achilles may well have been real people, but we don't now believe Achilles...