Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On this basis, the Corporation agreed "that such private services may be conducted in Memorial Church by an official of an indiviudual's own religion when this is desired, provided he is willing to do so notwithstanding the church's essentially Christian character. As in the past, the responsibility for...
"The Christian nature of Memorial Church has now been recognized, as a result of the past week's discussion," President Pusey asserted yesterday. "A house of worship must be a structure with a specific character," he affirmed. "This is a house of God, not a secular building."
Indirect Discourse. In Yeats's phrase, it is "the ceremony of innocence," the rite of existence, and Guinness celebrates it in all his roles. Since existence is a mystery, and cannot be seen or touched or understood like a common physical fact, he has developed a peculiarly orphic language...
Huxley and Waugh share many things apart from talent and an interest in drugs and religion (in Huxley's case mescaline and Vedanta, in Waugh's wine and Roman Catholicism). Each has a deep artistic integrity and an interest in odd characters -almost, unlike modern young men, to...
The 21 Huxley stories in the collection bring out the spite without heat that is his peculiar intellectual climate. If there is one central virtue in his art it is that his creatures have the capacity to explain themselves: the central defect is that they have the compulsion to explain...