Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks for Nothing. In Dillon, S.C., after running a far-out last in the four-man Democratic race for sheriff, Worth Elvington advertised in local newspapers, offering a $100 reward "for authentic information as to the names of the 13 people who voted for me at Lake View in Tuesday's primary. I would like to personally thank these people...
...Thank you so very much for printing Mr. Kazin's criticism of the psychological rubbish invading Broadway, the movies and current literature. Once again I feel like a normal human being rather than an illiterate simply because I refuse to expose myself to this form of "dehumanism and degeneration." That article alone will result in a renewal of my subscription to TIME...
...feeling and anguishing sincerity," and he decided that his presence among them was "a kind of desecration" since their creed no longer had any meaning for him. Years later he listened to a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr and said to him after ward: "Reinie, may a believing unbeliever thank you for your sermon?" Replied Niebuhr: "May an unbelieving believer thank you for appreciating...
...write to thank TIME for the fine review of my book Christ and Apollo that appeared in the May 23 issue. Naturally my friends were happy about the review (as I was), and there have been many who remarked on the competence, the taste and the ability of the reviewer. WILLIAM F. LYNCH, S. J. Washington...
...with his contemporaries or other disapproval, so long as he is convinced that his word is right, so long as he is convinced that his cause is sacred!" In ringing tones, whose echoes would surely resound in Nikita Khrushchev's office, Chukovsky concluded: "Farewell, dear Boris Leonidovich, thank you from all of us. We owe you a large and unpaid debt." So did the world, for the sum total of Pasternak's writing is a cry of joy at the wonder of life and of God who created it, and a deep conviction of man's resurrection...