Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient German town of Marburg, in a hillside villa overlooking the lazy River Lahn, lives a storm center of European Protestantism. Rudolf Karl Bultmann, 72, napping in his book-crammed study or limping through his grounds with his wife and daughter, does not look like an intellectual tornado. But in Germany, where ideas are apt to detonate like buzz bombs, sending shock waves through university faculties, student cafés and editorial rooms, the ideas of Rudolf Bultmann have set off a major furor...
...Spread of the Gospel faces serious obstacles. "In spite of some encouragement," there is as yet no "convincing evidence of a widespread revival of religion." And to make evangelism harder, "There is, also, a recrudescence of some of the ancient faiths [i.e., Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Shintoism] often associated with nationalistic fervor, and threatening to put obstacles in the way of the church's work . . . There is the greatest need for the rethinking of missionary strategy, and for devising new methods of cooperation." But while new methods of evangelism are desirable, "the finest, best-tempered and most certain instrument of evangelism...
...Japanese judge the private life of a geisha by the discretion of her indiscretions. Occidentals have been known to ignore her rigorous dance and song training and to lump her with the common prostitute, but this is patently unfair. Together with the hetaerae of ancient Greece and the courtesans of France, the geisha belongs to the aristocracy of dalliance...
...other dignitaries, including King Paul and his pert, pretty Queen Frederika, gathered at the site to dedicate the rebuilt remembrance of the past. And in all the polite and grateful words spoken, there was only one sour note. Greek Professor Anastasios Orlandos, his nation's highest authority on ancient monuments, was unable to attend, but he sent a note of dissent...
...Godwin is a specialist in phytogeography, which means that he studies remains of ancient plants with an eye to what they tell about ancient climate and geography. His favorite haunts are peat beds, where plant material is often preserved so well that the species can be identified easily after many thousand years. Pollen grains are especially useful. Birch pollen found at a certain level of an ancient peat bed is proof that the climate was cold when the peat was formed. If the peat is dated by its carbon 14 content, the actual age of the cold period...