Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last fortnight the United Lutherans met in Omaha and the American Lutherans in Detroit for their biennial conventions, attempted to merge. Between the two groups stood chiefly an argument over the Bible. Both believe it to be the Word of God, but American Lutherans believe it more literally. A joint commission on closer union ("pulpit and altar fellowship") had devised a formula which it hoped both could accept: "By virtue of a unique operation of the Holy Spirit, by which He supplied to the holy writers content and fitting word, the separate books of the Bible are related...
...Willkie family, under Herman Willkie, lawyer, book lover, Prussian-hater, had grown up in an atmosphere of argument that began when Father Willkie woke the boys with a bellowed quotation (a favorite of Lincoln's): "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and lasted until the evening hour, when he would read to them from one of the 6,700 books that lined the spreading, maple-shaded house...
...last week, U. S. interest in the campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through...
...inevitably to the factory gates, though it might never lead him to the White House. This hammering at the factory gates was not only a demonstration of personal courage. It was also a campaign for labor votes. But it was above all an integral point in the Willkie argument that he was trying to put across by his actions as well as by his words, an expression of his belief that there was a fundamental relation between the growth of U. S. industry and the historic U. S. denial of the class struggle, between the ancient forms...
...political campaign had been conducted in such a rarefied ideological atmosphere that it seemed, to many a voter, almost unAmerican. The whole thing is too intellectual, the voters seemed to say, and the hell with it. Last week affairs took a sharp down turn into the realm of barroom argument. Anybody could understand and appreciate such minor campaign issues...