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...strongest influences in leading Gandhi toward Satyagraha was the New Testament. Said he: "When I read in the Sermon on the Mount such passages as 'Resist not him that is evil, but whosoever smiteth thee on thy cheek turn to him the other also' ... I was simply overjoyed . . ." Gandhi once wrote that a living faith in nonviolence "is impossible without a living faith in God. A nonviolent man can do nothing save by the power and grace of God. Without it he won't have the courage to die without anger, without fear and without retaliation...
...worries. And then there were Captain Adino Paddock's elms. Captain Paddock decided Old Granary needed to be dressed up, so he imported 16 elm trees from England and planted them along the cemetery. They were his pride and joy, but unfortunately the youths of Boston town could not resist swinging on the limbs. The Captain once advertised a reward for "the Person or Persons that on Thursday night last cut and hacked one of the trees opposite his House . . ." Another time, espying a boy shaking one of the saplings, Captain Paddock "darted out of his house opposite and served...
Shaw's solution is the reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...
...said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...
...last week, knowing, as one said, that they had been living in a fool's paradise. Last winter when they put down the Communist strikes they showed that they did not want the Communists in power; but they were not willing to destroy what they were willing to resist. They even left Communists in many key positions. Last week, when France signed with other Western Europe nations a military pact whose sole purpose was protection against Communism, France still had a Communist, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, at the head of her atomic research. This dreamy escapism...