Word: thyself
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heal Thyself. In Kitchener, Ont., after being chased off a farm by an ax-waving farmer, shoved out of an apartment at gunpoint, threatened with death several times, punched in the nose, tossed down a flight of stairs, chased by dogs, Frank Fica decided to give up bill collecting, become a chiropractor...
...beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing poison." Kierkegaard, says Yale's Niebuhr, was much like his hero Socrates, "whose wisdom consisted in the knowledge of his ignorance, whose imperative was 'know thyself,' whose philosophy of life was 'reduplicated in his living and his dying, who was a comic and tragic figure, who was the father of philosophers but the father of no philosophy." Kierkegaard attacked the Christianity of his time devastatingly for standing between the individual and Christ. True Christianity...
...Know Thyself. In Greensboro, N.C., Herman Lamm, serving a 15-year prison term for robbing a bank, appealed to have his case reopened on grounds of insanity, announced that he had worn a work shirt with his employer's name and address on it during the holdup, claimed that "this is not compatible to the action of a sane person who is about to rob a bank...
...Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations of the world might understandably reply to the church's plea for international unity and peace: 'Physician, heal thyself.' " Nevertheless, the council mapped out a huge task: "We believe that Christianity in southeast Asia may well prove the pacemaker in international diplomacy in the next ten years...
...Heal Thyself. In all but work, Page practices the moderation that he preaches. Waking between 5 and 5:30, he makes his own breakfast and starts work at once. With no visitors or telephone calls to interrupt him he gets his best work done (writing and assembling statistics for his reports) before he leaves for the clinic...