Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this case, the objection voiced in the House of Lords over what will happen to the future generation is valid. Sax stated. It would pose a dangerous problem to any nation. Harmful recessive traits would begin to appear in the succeeding generations, creating a general decline in the strength of the nation...
...discussion from the floor, it appeared that about half the churchmen were dead set against it. Cried Lutheran Pastor Ernest Edwin Ryden of Rock Island, Ill.: "[It] would divide the world into two armed camps. It would sign the death warrant of the United Nations!" Said the Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, famed pacifist pastor of the Evanston (Ill.) First Methodist Church: "It is aggressive to Russia-just as a similar alliance between Russia and Latin America would appear aggressive to the American people...
...moments of clandestine passion (as frank as any that have recently reached the screen), their childish gaiety, their anguish and fears have an almost unbearable intimacy. Sensitively conceived and superbly acted-notably by Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe-Devil makes most cinema explorations of the human heart appear strictly two-dimensional...
...first glance: in England, for example, Eliot believes that culture includes "Derby Day . . . dog races . . . the dart board . . . boiled cabbage cut into sections . . . the music of Elgar." It also includes the English bishop's characteristic gaiters-in fact, religion and culture tend to become so intertwined that bishops appear to be "a part of English culture, and horses and dogs ... a part of English religion...
Eliot believes that there is a very good reason for linking horses and bishops. "No culture," he argues, "can appear or develop except in relation to a religion"; nor can any religion survive without the "maintenance of culture." And yet, religion and culture are not identical. A close observer can see both the bond that unites them and the element that separates them in, for instance, the writings of such men as Voltaire and Nietzsche-who contribute to culture by assaulting, and thus recognizing, the presence of the religion that makes their culture cohere...