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Word: testaments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marvelous militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead to a distrust of all white people..." King's first statement is based on a correct assumption: many Negroes believe somehow the situation will be changed. However, this is an essentially ahistorical solution based on an old testament conception of history which is mostly mythical; and a new testament conception of history, called saving history, which is a history of gods, chosen people, and the saved and, apparently, Negroes are none of these. So, coupled with non-violent strategy and passive self-defense are belief in evolution and providence...

Author: By Archie C. Epps, | Title: Civil Rights Movement Reaches Impasse | 5/13/1964 | See Source »

...hosted a White House dinner for 61 top businessmen, including Henry Ford II, David Rockefeller, Roger Blough and Crawford Greenewait. Johnson talked of a "golden opportunity" for the economy to achieve its full potential in the coming months, and invited them to help him realize it. "In the Old Testament," he said, "there is a verse which says: 'Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.*I can promise you that if you are diligent in your business, this President will always be pleased to stand with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Warmth of Spring | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...World's Fair seems singularly insignificant. But the sheet of transparent plastic, less than 2 in. square, is covered closely with 1,240 barely visible rectangles. And when examined with a microscope, each tiny rectangle spreads out into a page of the Bible. Both the Old and New Testament - all 773,746 words of the King James Version - are all clearly recorded on that one slip of plastic. The job took only four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Data Handling: Micro-Bible | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

BERNARD REDER-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. A posthumous tribute shows 20 bronze sculptures and 50 graphics. Reder brilliantly skipped from classical to Old Testament subjects to pure fantasy: he planted blossoms in the back of a cat, perched a cow precariously on a trapeze. The most impressive work is an 8-ft. Aaron gingerly holding the tabernacle in his huge hands. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: UPTOWN: Apr. 24, 1964 | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Before he died, Lenin carefully considered the man who was to succeed him. Joseph Stalin had risen to the post of first party secretary from his beginnings as a terrorist and holdup man for party funds. In his political testament, Lenin warned in vain against making Stalin his successor, because he considered him too rude and too ambitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Battle over the Tomb | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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