Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the kind of TV law seen on Perry Mason and The Defenders. They rarely touch criminal cases, personal-injury suits or domestic relations. Most of their work is done outside the courtroom, and some senior partners have never argued a case before a judge and jury-a testament to Elihu Root's dictum that "a lawyer's business is to keep his clients out of litigation...
Many Americans will share Durant's broad indignation, many will dissent from it. But one of the remarkable facts is that there is much less indignation in the churches today-at least as far as sexual morality goes. The watchword is to be positive, to stress the New Testament's values of faith, hope and charity rather than the prohibitions of the Commandments...
...praying at shrines in Israel and Jordan that honor events in Jesus' life, he dramatically brought to mind Christianity's roots in Judaism, and its historic links with the Old Testament, and even with Islam. By meeting with Athenagoras, he created an "opening to the East" that John had only dreamed about. By traveling in a jet aircraft he made it clear that a modern bishop of Rome need not be a prisoner of Italy...
...always there was the evidence of the Bible. The Old Testament names numerous "cities," tells roughly where they stood, and suggests where to look for more. When the Israelites under Moses were pressing toward the Promised Land, they asked permission to pass through Edom and Moab on the shore of the Dead Sea, promising to stay on the "king's highway," and not to drink the water of the country. Still the King of Edom refused, forcing the Israelites to detour through the dangerous eastern desert...
Once more the Old Testament backed him up. Careful reading of the Book of Genesis shows that Abraham and the other Hebrew patriarchs were not real Bedouins. For one thing, camels...