Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith are man's frail and imperfect vessels for carrying God's truth, and are forever in need of reformulation. In the light of Christianity's need to respond to the human needs of the earth, many of these ancient formulas hardly seem worth rethinking. "The central axis of religious concern," notes Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "has shifted from matters of ultimate 'salvation,' and of heaven or hell, to questions of the meaning, necessity, or usefulness of religion for this life." In other words, the theological task is to justify...
...drive to instill faith in the forecasts, stations are erecting radar towers and hiring meteorologists who are called "Dr." and give their reports from "Weather Central" - a far corner in the studio. No matter that in many cities the U.S. Weather Bureau offers a recorded telephone service which gives all the weather a person wants or needs to know in 40 seconds or less...
Measures are being taken to stop the spreading bees, but there is considerable doubt whether they can be halted before they spread farther southward through Argentina and northward through Colombia, Central America Mexico and into the U.S. After the African bees became a menace, Brazil's worried Ministry of Agriculture ordered that all African bees be exterminated, the ruling was never enforced Moreover,it failed to provide for indemnification of beekeepers. Impressed by improved honey yields, the beekeepers did nothing, and the Africans overwhelmed the relatively peaceful Italian and German bees that previously had Brazil to themselves. Spreading...
...begins with a shot of an eclipse condition: the earth, moon, and sun in orbital conjunction, shown on a single vertical plane in center screen. The image is central and becomes one of three prerequisites for each major progression made in the film...
...defeat comes because he is not adequately prepared to meet the advanced military technology of the Roman army; Dr. Strangelove, of course, contains a running motif of machines assuming human characteristics (the machine sexuality of its opening titles) while humans become machinelike, a theme carried further in 2001. The central portion of 2001, the trip to Jupiter, can, as an odyssey toward a final progression of man, concern itself largely with Kubrick's persistent preoccupation of the relationship between man and his tools...