Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Such a picture of God is suitable only for the grimmer kind of fairy tales and not for adults with freedom to think and read. Anyway, even without the proofs of science, one has to reject the idea of a God who looks like man and acts like a poor specimen of the race out of hand...
When the two were married the following year, Magrina became her manager. What led him to reject a law career, he says, was the realization that she would need a manager and that such a responsibility should not fall to a stranger: "At least I am honest and sincere." Magrina claims responsibility for having persuaded De los Angeles to leave Spain for the more lucra tive climate of La Scala and the Met. Today he handles all contract negotiations, has long since become inured to being addressed by his wife's name. Says he: "Victoria sings, but later...
...American people, and in their ability to render a free and fair judgment," said he. "And you have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment, to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office, to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the presidency in the national interest...
...moved their minds and stirred their hearts ... Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party. Do not reject this man." With that, the hall exploded into the fiercest demonstration of the week. From his command post, Bobby Kennedy set out to snuff out Stevenson flickers in wavering delegations. But it did not take long to discover that the delegates themselves were largely unmoved, and that the Stevenson revival was largely a mirage. Bobby phoned Jack. "It's O.K.," he said. "We're in." The roll call told the story. As each delegation registered its declaration...
...believe your Communist ideology to be sterile, unsound and doomed to failure. We believe that your children will reject the intellectual prison in which you seek to confine them, and that ultimately they will choose the eternal principles of freedom...