Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trays cafeteria-style . . . Both exhibited . . . superb good humor in adjusting themselves to this American style of dining. Refreshing was the Archbishop's intimate fellowship with Presiding Bishop Sherrill of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. Affectionately he called him "Henry," while he in turn called the Archbishop "Jeff." I wonder how many Britishers would dare to say "Jeff" to the man who crowned Queen Elizabeth...
Archbishop Fisher's "devastating dictum," describing everybody who is not a Communist or a convinced Christian as an amiable nonentity, smacks of self-adulation and strikes me as "somewhat less than humility. I wonder what the gentle Christ would say to that on the occasion of His second coming...
...which, in all situations, he is expected to find the way toward his goal. Inner-direction appears in Catholic as well as Protestant countries, but the internal gyroscopes best known in the U.S. were designed by the firm of John Calvin & Adam Smith. (Andrew Carnegie's was a wonder...
...wonder youthful ghouls in New York should be caught murdering and battering old men and then yowl "Mama" when run down. You are breeding a race of monsters, nurtured in a diseased way of life that is based upon atom bombs, crime comics, bad movies and the cult of the almighty dollar . . . This is what you want to foist upon the world . . . You fool only your own "booboisie...
...stands up to a stampede only gets stomped on; the way to handle a stampede is to ride with it, and perhaps turn it. But in trying to turn the coexistence stampede, Attlee the moderate had ridden closer and closer to the Bevanite position. Last week some began to wonder whether Clem Attlee was trying to turn the stampede or lead...