Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker. He preached across the length & breadth of Western Europe, sometimes followed by an odd army of 10,000 penitents. He is estimated to have converted 25,000 Spanish Jews. No linguist, he was credited with having the pentecostal "gift of tongues" so that his word was understood everywhere. In his last 20 years this Dominican was believed...
Thence to the Tower to read "The Last Puritan" which is probably exceedingly good; but my mind soon did wonder of other things. If truth be only to see things as they are-which be its business I am told-and hath no care for how things ought to be, then the poet doth err: Truth is ugly; common; dust. It be no pursuit for one who hath in his heart the improvement of man. Indeed, if this be true, what doth one gain to seek the truth if it doth not lead to more than the impassive real. Better...
...make it obscure or tedious in the future." Thus followed his use of the Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation of the flowing and repetitive simplicity of oral narrative. The care that Moore lavished on every sentence in "The Brook Kerith" and "Heloise and Abelard" will excite the wonder of the uninitiated. Mr. Morgan's analysis of the results of this superhuman care is indeed subtle and illuminating. Yet even after such an analysis it is hard to see a revolution in fiction in the rhythms, the repetitions, and the intricate patterns of vowel-sounds that make the perfection...
Jonathan Swift would blink in wonder to see what the Russians have done to Dr. Gulliver. They have taken all the trenchant satire of that colossus among midgets, and they have revamped it to demonstrate that the organized crime called capitalism is the meanest, most contemptible, most ridiculous abuse known...
...Howerth, brilliant young research chemist, neither knew nor cared who hired him, who fitted out an expensive laboratory for him and then left him to his own devices. He thought it was queer, but because he was hot on the trail of a great discovery he soon forgot to wonder. What Howerth thought he was after, and then thought he had, was the creation of organic life from inorganic matter. When his invention turned out to be a deadly virus that killed his only friend, he was horrified. But Nicholas Holtz was pleased, chalked up another long shot turned asset...