Word: reinhold
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Protestantism against Hitler's puppet church. That same year he was fired from his professorship at the University of Bonn for refusing to take the ritual faculty pledge of allegiance to Hitler. Returning to his native Switzerland, the archfoe of Nazism often perplexed Westerners-including America's Reinhold Niebuhr-with his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism...
...always coordinate with modesty." Perhaps, but then, truth is never coordinate with vanity. Self-praise is inescapably distorted and corrupted at its source, and this-not some arbitrary convention of etiquette-makes the self-praiser always seem at least ridiculous or fraudulent, and often worse. One must return to Reinhold Neibuhr for the key: "Since the self judges itself by its own standards, it finds itself good...