Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blunt, burly citizen, Bryant made a belligerent witness. "Absolutely not," he snapped in answer to Schroder's question. He and Butts had not rigged the game. "If we did, we ought to go to jail." Bryant admitted that he and Butts had often talked football over the telephone, but he insisted that for the most part they had been discussing changes in the interpretations of Southeast Conference rules. Did Butts give him any information about Georgia strategy? "Absolutely not," said Bryant. "And if he had, the first thing I'd think is that they're not going...
...minds for Christ's coming. Although he reads and absorbs such radical theo logians as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ru dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery of the Bible: bread, water, light, darkness, wind, fire, rain, hunger, thirst, eat, drink, walk...
Some of the works display the influence of African and Asian art, and some seem to combine the thick, blunt lines of Gothic woodcuts with the vi brant tendrils of art nouveau. Com pared to the primitive force of some expressionists, Heckel's forms have been described as "lyrical and refined." But taken alone, their chief characteristic is a searing fury-a world of distorted faces and figures as throbbing as Van Gogh's and as pain-racked as Munch...
...times it was almost more than Western veterans of many anti-Communist battles could bear. "Love," said Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, "love and respect for other people is what we need." The love feast lasted all week. The beaming smile splashing across Khrushchev's moonface, the blunt, back-slapping peasant humor, the friendly-bear quality of the Soviet boss when he decides to be amiable-all these familiar traits were on full display in Moscow as U.S., British and Russian diplomats sat down to try to negotiate a nuclear test ban agreement...
...Barmen declaration was a blunt answer to a crude attempt at conquest. Since the East German Communists' strategy seems aimed at taming the churches rather than openly destroying them, the Weissensee declaration carefully specifies situations in which Christians must resist totalitarianism. They fail their responsibility, the Weissensee declaration points out, if they "remain silent about the sins of our times." The churches are equally unfaithful to their calling if they submit "to the absolute claim of an ideology" or agree to an atheist morality "in which man without God is made the goal of education and culture." The declaration...