Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
TIME'S determination to tell the news, whenever it can, through people, is as strong as ever. "Human interest" is not only the most interesting kind of news, it is also the "truest," i.e., the nearest approach to the way events actually happen. In casual conversation, people sometimes reveal more about the news than in set speeches or ponderous books. Millions of words have been written in the past 15 years about the personality of Franklin Roosevelt. In March 1933, the week he was inaugurated President, TIME printed a brief quotation from his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. It summed...
...facts about Germany, for example, in a way that clearly showed TIME'S working hypothesis: that the Nazi Party was very bad medicine. It reports the Communist Party today against the background of a similar hypothesis. The five or six editors and correspondents most directly concerned with Britain approach that subject with very different emotional attitudes; they meet at present on the following working hypothesis: Britain is in a bad way, and may well be in a worse one a year hence; but all we know about that country leads us to believe that it will somehow come through...
...paradox of man's freedom and finiteness is common to all great religions. But the Christian approach to the problem is unique, for it asserts that the crux of the problem is not man's finiteness-the qualities that make him one with the brute creation-but man's sin. It is not from the paradox that Christianity seeks to redeem man; it is from, the sin that arises from the paradox. It is man who seeks to redeem himself from the paradox. His efforts are the stuff of history. Hence history, despite man's goals...
...Decide how much money you want to make this summer. A student who wants or needs $400 will require a different approach from the one who needs only...