Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several months Rayon promised much, did nothing. Young Paulo, after his discharge, got a steward's job at Paris' Orly Airport, and was content to live simply and anonymously. Rayon, on his trail, said he felt sorry for Paulo, bought him a drink, and told him the truth. The young heir said he was not surprised, and added, "I don't care about their filthy money." But he agreed to disappear for a time...
...communion. We are coming to understand more clearly what it means to belong to a church which is both Catholic and Reformed. This is not an uneasy compromise . . . the two parts of our heritage are not incompatible and opposed elements, but are essential aspects of God's truth...
...stands, The Captive and the Free is not one of ary's best novels. But had the author been given the strength to do more work on it, the book might have been his most significant, for Cary knew that an offbeat life can sometimes distill significant truths. And in comparing the validity of conflicting approaches to God, Author Cary, before death ended his search, was perhaps looking for the most profound truth...
...intellectual and moral discipline in evaluating the tremendous problems ui our times. I am numbered among many who would be most grateful if Lippmann would take a stand that could endure the test of time, in other words, a stand characterized by the tenets of a philosophical-political-moral truth...
...that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted son the truth about his parentage-and the eight-year-old, instead of fracturing his psyche, exclaims with new-found pride: "I got two Dads...