Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very idea of a secular realm is a Christian notion; saecula, or age, rests on the Biblical doctrine of the Creation as having a provisional independence over against the God Who created it. In the Christian revelation, a new saecula has dawned, which shows us what this world...
...idea of a new order lying in the future assumes the Marxist or Nazi forms, for example, the power of the true new age is confused with elements of the old, and we witness the demonic power of all idolatrous thought. The New Testament conception of the Antichrist--a false messiah of this world pretending to power of the world to come--is here relevant. In the lectures we are attempting to understand our age in terms of New Testament faith. The idea of purposive change, basic to science, derives its moving force from the Christian doctrine of the Kingdom...
Curley's wit raises a question that still divides the faculty of the institution he so enjoyed baiting. Was he the colorful old rogue that he has been made lately, or did he do Boston irreparable harm? In his old age he certainly tried to give credence to the former view. Though he grouched about Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From...
...written in a couple of weeks in 1828, is Rossini's penultimate operatic work. He wrote one more opera the next year; and, having reached the Shakespeareanly canonical number of 37 stage works, he suddenly renounced opera writing, coincidentally at the age of 37, and never composed another stage work during the rest of his long life...
...them. Yet all the time he really only uses Ramie to fill an emotional vacuum, just as she is simply using him to get money. Montherlant finished Desert Love (part of a longer novel) in 1932, made only minor additions for this version. The book does not show its age. The novel's tortured, indecisive lieutenant could easily have his counterparts at many a desert outpost today. Clashes of civilization and the cracks they reveal in the conqueror's armor are no more out of date than Montherlant's sharply written novel...