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...years, Oxford University has come to depend on the solid talents of Professor Arthur Lehman Goodhart. He is a tall, burly man who dresses with a barrister's sobriety (striped pants and black coat) and has a knack for making the most complex legal principle seem simple. When he emerges from his rooms at "Univ" (University College) and strides briskly down "The High" to his lecture hall, a capacity crowd of students is always there to hear...
...taken a long time to realize in practice that the peaceful enjoyment of my rights as an American citizen may depend on similar guarantees for an individual living on the other side of the globe...
Stengel won the game by disobeying orders -but he might just as well have lost it by his action . . . The reason McGraw was so incensed was that although that game was important, even more important was the winning of the pennant . . . And no manager can win if he cannot depend upon his players carrying out the orders given them...
...sigh is not enough: a new spirit has to permeate the whole. The representatives of Christianity can no doubt assist in preparing the way for this inner renewal. This, however, will not depend on what they can claim, but on what they can contribute...
...issue will depend on whether or not enough either/or Christianity can be found in the next two decades. The more moderate forms [of Christianity] will have their function, but they will not be determinative ... It must also be taken for granted that the state will not become Christian. Spiritually speaking, therefore, it is the leaven principle which will determine the influence of the Christian attitude in politics...