Word: testaments
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...