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Here he is in Letters from the Earth, speaking in the voice of Satan commenting on the strangeness of man's ways: "He has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights ... sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water...
...Supremest? In Mississippi, where only 6% of the state's Negroes have the vote, the issue was who would be the supremest white supremacist. Paul Burney Johnson Jr., Democratic Lieutenant Governor, had a head start as the outdoing disciple of segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. Once a man gets the Democratic nomination in Mississippi, he is usually as good as elected, but Johnson had to work hard to win the general election last week. He was opposed by Republican Rubel Phillips, who ran as a Goldwater-backing candidate and polled an amazing-for a Mississippi Republican-123,000 votes...
...welcome the opportunity to discuss with Mr. Wallach the question of 'extra ecclesiam nulla salus. I also promise Mr. Wallach that ... my road to heaven is very much kinder than that of Pascal and Montaigne (the two sources Wallach mentioned in his letter); its very dogmatic definiteness is its supremest charity...
...these things directly, or even indicate exactly why they may be true. And yet, his talks are shot through with annoyance at anyone who does not already accept them as facts. The President seems to be fighting against a dark form of ignorance for which he has the supremest contempt, but against which he has to play a canny game, with a few cards on the table, but more up the sleeve...
...dealing with subjects of the second general class, the Greek sculptors made use of grouping and of gestures to interpret the actions and the expressed emotions of their subjects. In this employment of gestures was shown some of the supremest skill of the Greek artists, for through the gestures of their subjects they suggest to the imagination of one who sees the statues, those outside causes which make the whole spirit of the statue and the gestures themselves intelligible...