Word: conceptions
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...Modern youth may be on the verge of discovering that it is more important to be a good man than it is to be a rich man. If he is moving in that direction, he is discovering that he needs a concept of character . . If youth is turning this corner . . . it needs all the encouragement and illumination it can receive, from TIME as well as from T. S. Eliot...
...clerical state which maintains a Protestant ghetto." Mackay, who studied in Madrid in 1915-16 and speaks Spanish fluently, found Spain "worse than I had imagined . . . The peace that prevailed was the peace of the sepulchre." More than at any time since the 16th Century, there is "that terrible concept of Spanish unity . . . which equates Spanish nationality with adhesion to the Roman Catholic Church and makes the state the tool of the church's will." Spain's 20,000 Protestants are virtually isolated from normal life: according to Mackay, they may not mark their churches, publish church literature...
...punch-line text, is not merely the age-old fight that Mr. Truman originally described, against "poverty, disease, hunger and illiteracy." It is a fight right here at home, to broaden the American mind, to understand peasant Asia before too late. Eleanor Roosevelt calls this volume "a pictorial concept of the Point Four Program" and its 150 shrewdly, chosen photographs start out on the Point Four theme--the brutal toil and slow starvation of life in China, contrasted with American welfare. The point is clear--that the "billion or more" people of the underdeveloped regions are increasingly susceptible...
...know their real enemy. They freely acknowledge that the greatest barriers to the Kremlin's dream of world domination, are the freedom-loving Protestant countries. Peoples long trained in the acceptance of authoritarian control, whether temporal or spiritual, become relatively easy conquests for Communism. Peoples schooled in the concept of religious and political liberty are harder to handle...
...prophetic message is summarized in the idea of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah.* The Christians take this to be the foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, but Jewish tradition sees it as the role of the Jews in the world. And the important part of the concept is the word 'servant.' Suffering, too, if necessary-and it often seems to be necessary. But suffering by itself is not enough...