Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opoldville last week, Kasavubu's overeager followers, thinking that their leader had been invited to negotiate, were already laying plans for a seven-day celebration as soon as independence is announced. And Kasavubu himself, a deceptively mild-looking man who dreams of rebuilding the fabled 14th century Kingdom of the Congo, broadly hinted that his people would not wait forever. "I love visiting Belgium," he said. "But it must not be for too long...
...revealed as the great plotter, enemy, dictator, and shedder of blood. Those who proclaim pan-Arabism and raise Abdel Nasser to the rank of prophet have been exposed. Gamal Abdel Nasser has sent arms to Mosul for fighting because he wanted to annex Iraq and add it to his kingdom...
...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
...answers is a preliminary correlation of Reason and Revelation, to deal with the epistemological (i.e., how-do-you-know) problem. And following the central grouping is the correlation dealing with the earthly consequences of the divine-human encounter: the question of History, answered by the Christian symbol of the Kingdom...
...being that is implied in human existence, God, says Tillich, "must be called the infinite power of being which resists the threat of nonbeing. If anxiety is defined as the awareness of being finite, God must be called the infinite ground of courage . . . If the notion of the Kingdom of God appears in correlation with the riddle of our historical existence, it must be called the meaning, fulfillment, and unity of history. In this way an interpretation of the traditional symbols of Christianity is achieved which preserves the power of these symbols and which opens them to the questions elaborated...