Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday, the nine-man executive committee will refer the Faculty report to the full Corporation, a governing board of approximately 40 members that act as trustees of the institute. The executive committee is expected to append its own recommendations to the Faculty report...
Perhaps the most profound change has been sociological. "The younger people differ from their elders in the way they act and the way they think," Reischauer comments. "They are more western, more modernized, in their outlook." One example of this has been the virtual disappearance from the cities of the kimono in favor of more western-like dress...
These reservations, however, should not obscure the fact that the play as a whole is both pertinent and effective. Toward the end, and particularly in the last scene, Libott displays an impressive sense of the theatrical. All the adaptation really needs is some tightening in the first act...
...canal. Far from being granted permission, Captain Koutales was not even allowed ashore to ask for it. Almost two weeks later the shipping company's local agent managed to get the required permit, but it was canceled almost immediately. The agent was told that he could no longer act for the ship in any capacity, and the Panaghia was ordered to a remote section of the harbor, where an Egyptian patrol launch was set to watch it night and day. Meanwhile, Captain Koutales' supplies of food and water were running out fast, and the Egyptians refused to allow...
What, then, is left of Christianity? The saving act of God, answers Bultmann, which is what the New Testament really represents, and for which he uses the theologian's Greek word, kerygma. The problem is to free the kerygma from its encrustation of myth so that modern man can grasp...