Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote ("the vote of a four-year-old counts as much as ... any teacher's") all the rules of their own conduct and government is as unreasonable and inexcusable as for one to say to a blind man, "Choose your own path-I won't say a word...
...Russian show, with its 15-foot statue of Stalin-a bunch of fresh red roses at his feet-was only one example of careful propaganda. Other countries did as well. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed that first day to help spread the communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp...
...streets of Córdoba, where he was born 30 years ago. At week's end bullfighters, gathered in rings throughout Spain, mourned Manolete with the formal pomp which he loved, as a good bullfighter and a good Spaniard must. In Mexico City they remembered that when word of his death came, lightning had been flashing in the darkened sky. At that moment, the crack of balls and shouted bets in the pelota courts had died away, and the voice over the loudspeaker had intoned, "Se murió el mejor" (the best is dead...
...they are called, 'anthropomorphic,' images, they merely succeed in substituting images of some other kinds. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says one, 'but I do believe in a great spiritual force.' What he has not noticed is that the word 'force' has let in all sorts of images about winds and tides and electricity and gravitation. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says another, 'but I do believe we are all parts of one great Being which moves and works through...
...popular with his Oxford colleagues. Some resent his large student following. Others criticize his "cheap" performances on the BBC and sneer at him as a "popularizer." There are complaints about his rudeness (he is inclined to bellow "Nonsense !" in the heat of an argument when a conventionally polite 25-word circumlocution would be better form). But their most serious charge is that Lewis' theological pamphleteering is a kind of academic heresy...