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...believe that God will sometimes alter what would otherwise be the natural course of events to answer a prayer...
According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human shortcomings...
...summit if the Geneva meeting gives "some promise that a summit meeting would have a reasonable prospect of advancing the cause of peace." Afterward, "official spokesmen" passed the word that the West would not go to the summit at all if the Russians made any move to alter the German situation unilaterally...
...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...
...concerning international law. He shall conclude treaties with foreign states on behalf of the Federation. . . ." When Adenauer becomes President he may attempt to expand this power beyond its present ceremonial limits. If he can live long enough, he might transform the Presidency into more than a formal role, and alter the Bonn Republic to a system which lies between the British and the American...