Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago in Florida, an auto accident leveled tragedy on Suzy's life. Her father was killed; Suzy's arms were broken. At the hospital, where she thought she might be dying, Suzy gave her name as Mrs. Pierre de la Salle. From Manhattan, Pierre de la Salle. 28 or thereabouts, raced to Florida. When newsmen caught up with him, he repeatedly denied that he was married to Suzy, although he of course conceded that she is a "dear friend" with whom he shares an apartment. "A tremendous apartment," he explained simply. But newsmen pressed on, uncovered...
Principle v. Tactics. This was stirring stuff, bui whether it would stir any vast number of Frenchmen up that hard but beautiful road was still to be seen. After the first wave of gratitude at a firm hand. French politicians were already beginning to like the thought of the politics that would be resumed when De Gaulle relinquishes his temporary mandate. On the far left, tubby Communist Boss Jacques busily trying party as the voice of "the republican masses," opened a drive for a popular front to defeat De Gaulle's proposed constitutional reforms. (After a long, nervous...
...prayer a personal communion with a loving heavenly Father as
Christ described it to be, or is it just a series of thought vibrations
by which we correct the spiritual imbalance between man and his natural
environment?"
Hell is a problem for theologians as well as sinners; to reconcile the worm and the fire with the Christian concept of a loving and forgiving God has been a perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death...
...Xenophon's most moving passages, as the exhausted troops climb slowly up one more mountain, there suddenly rises from the front rank a tremendous cry. "Xenophon, hearing this, thought that more enemies were attacking in front; for some were following behind them from the burning countryside . . . But when the shouts grew louder and nearer, as each group came up it went pelting along to the shouting men in front, and the shouting was louder and louder as the crowds increased. Xenophon mounted his horse, and took Lycios with his horsemen, and galloped to bring help. Soon they heard...