Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey is an old nation but a young democracy. After nine centuries of autocracy, it has known representative government for less than a decade. Its vigorous burst toward freedom has been the wonder of the undemocratic Middle East...
...cult counsels "personal adjustment." But adjustment to what? New Testament Christianity is hardly adjusted to its environment. It makes us seriously wonder, in fact, how much the social order is worth adjusting to. The gospel urges us to nonconformity: "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked...
...Saturday before Thanksgiving I saw the annual Yale-Harvard football game. It was 50 years ago I was at the same game, except at New Haven rather than Cambridge. What makes me wonder more and more is that so little has been changed. The classic words and tunes on Saturday were as refreshing as when first heard 50 years ago. And, still more remarkable, the enthusiasm and finer feeling of loyalty were still the same. Having gone to both universities I am puzzled why I did not decide which was better last week. By no means can I explain...
...When is this awful windbag going to collapse and stay collapsed like his poetical "burlap bag"? . .-. With Protestantism cutting up such didoes, no wonder the Catholic Church is gaining ground every year...
...villain, Mr. Universe (Steve Reeves), idly nibbles at a white orchid and pouts: "You've been avoiding me, Athena, and I'm full of acid and electricity." One day he wraps his triceps around Adam's neck, but Adam remembers his Commando tactics, flattens the meatless wonder and gets the girl. As one of her sisters remarks: "It's wonderful what you can do without muscles...