Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Enthusiasm, Knox thinks, only came into its full flower a century after Luther "shook up the whole pattern of European theology." The Quakers were the first of this flowering, and Knox "cannot resist the impression" that there is a direct line of influence upon them from the Anabaptist movement that ended in a bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent...
...think there's any great difference on foreign policy . . . We have to be stiff with Russia, but not so stiff as to bring on a war." The arguments were over questions of degree. How much should the U.S. gamble on its allies' will to resist? Said Taft: "I think there should be a re-examination of everything...
...wealthy collector brought him a slim, yellowed volume of Persian poetry. Sure enough, reported Arberry, "There it was ... the oldest copy of Omar Khayyám's poems hitherto discovered ... The celebrated [Bodleian] codex had been bettered by exactly two centuries . . . This was more than human curiosity could resist...
...failed in Yugoslavia this year. Corn, the main harvest, was only half that of last year; wheat was down 30%, potatoes 70%. Total loss: 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs and animal fodder. A winter famine would cut the capacity of Marshal Tito's independent Communist government to resist Stalinist aggression...
Love, says Ironist Gill, is not just the sweet mystery of life; it is a tremendous natural force that can shatter people who resist it. And people who truly know how to love can be dreadful nuisances in a world of people...