Word: without
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always struck me as incredible that anyone could expect others to suffer and possibly die for him without doing what he could to prevent it, even if it meant exchanging places with them. Former Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi is a case in point...
...only 201 pages, Mehta embraces an enormous variety of life and death. Her style is light without being flip; her skepticism never descends to cynicism. Given her subject this is a miracle of rational ism and taste...
...depended a good deal on deep-set, piercing blue eyes that seemed to transfix his viewers, and a burnished voice that would soar, pause theatrically or plunge to a hushed whisper. Wearing a cape and large pectoral cross, and with a blackboard as his only prop, he performed flawlessly without script or cue cards. He put something like 30 hours' preparation into each show, memorizing key points and the eloquent windup that would precede his famous "God love you" sign...
...activist on his staff, let parish priests elect his top aide and "taxed" church construction projects to help the poor. In 1967 he called on President Johnson to withdraw all troops from Viet Nam. But when he tried to sell a church and give the money to the poor without consulting the parishioners, he was forced to reverse himself, and soon asked to leave Rochester, a year before the usual retirment...
...death that America's grimmer sense of history seemed to run his way again. One of Sheen's basic messages was against self-indulgence. He told Americans that the Antichrist would come, "talking of peace, prosperity and plenty." Modern man, he insisted, seeks promises of salvation without a cross, wants a "Christ without his nails." Then the bishop would thunder: "There is no pleasure without pain, no Easter without Good Friday... God love...