Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford also attacked evangelical apathy (if not active opposition) toward social action in the U.S. "Christians have a stake in preserving historic truth," he acknowledged, "but since sin infects every man and institution, we need a holy discontent with the status quo. The Gospel calls for constant change. We cannot identify our Gospel with the past." On the other hand, warned Ford, the church should not be "the water boy of world revolution." Too many revolutions, he argued, "fail to grasp the heart of the problem, which is the problem of the human heart. They throw...
...used to be dangerous, said Peters, in the days when doctors could not control infection. Today, he pointed out, it is safer for a woman to have a hospital abortion in her first three months of pregnancy than to have a child. For this reason, said Peters, the statute cannot be defended on the ground that it serves to prevent death from the abortion procedure. This interpretation, he continued, would actually infringe on a woman's right to life. Moreover, it would be an unjustified invasion of privacy "in matters related to marriage, family and sex." Efforts to reinterpret...
Since most men and women cannot know the hour of their death, they fritter away hours and hours of their lives. But suppose one is young and knows one's death is imminent? The idea that animated Director Vittorio De Sica in making A Place for Lovers was to find the one life imperative that possesses the force of death. That imperative is love - life at its most vibrant intensity...
...parties, J.R. and his pals drink vino, play with revolvers and have a good time with "the broads." While the others amuse themselves by talking tough and riding uptown to visit the whores, J.R. shyly courts his girl on rooftops and ferries. But he cannot bring himself to violate his strict Catholic heritage by sleeping with her. When she confides to him that she was once raped, he rejects her and returns to life with his cronies on the street...
...print? Gross quotes the new attitude as described by a Kingsley Amis character: "If there was one thing which Roger never felt like, it was a good read." Have science and the new near disciplines like sociology-not to mention the sheer accumulation of modern knowledge that he cannot hope to assimilate-made the humanist man of letters obsolete, permanently inferior as "the last amateur in a world of professionals...