Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RECTORS CLASH OVER HELL, bannered the Columbia Basin News, and the air was soon thick with theology. Kinsolving was within his rights, said some: Hell-lessness had been defended by churchmen from Origen (circa 185-254) to Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple (1881-1944). But Origen's teachings were condemned as heresy by the Second Council of Constantinople (553). May's backers recalled. "Kinsolving's theology is sensationalism," said one clergyman. "He preaches on sex and questions the virgin birth. He's completely different from the rest of us in every way-he gets...
...forthcoming sale of Greensboro's public swimming pools," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News sadly, "symbolizes the plight of a tormented region. The torment stems from hates and fears tragically stirred by unfortunate but inevitable high court decisions. It becomes inflammatory when forces which would push too fast clash with forces unwilling to move...
...Princess Aisha has a special authority that derives from the fact that her father, King Mohammed V (the title he assumed this year), is spiritual leader of Morocco's 9,000,000 Moslems as well as their temporal ruler. For that struggle has also meant a head-on clash with the mullahs of Islam, who insist that the Koran, as the literal word of the Prophet, is subject to no modification or review whatever. The King has dedicated both himself and his daughter to the proposition that the Koran is a living creed, that if Mohammed were alive today...
Unhappily, in the attempt to do so, Carson McCullers' brilliant individuality and special feeling for life have been clouded and blurred. Aided by a sensitive production, The Member of the Wedding was a successful mood play. With a much less helpful production, Square Root is all clash of moods. Though plainly the object is to deplore complicated neurotic love, the wrecked marriage is treated too realistically for a play with so special an angle of vision. Again, though the object is to exalt simple feeling, the love story is so romantically colorless as to leave no angle of vision...
Thayer and Grays will clash this afternoon in a playoff for the right to meet Hurlbut Hall, undisputed winner of the American League. The tournament winner will go to Yale to oppose the winner of the Elis' touch football tourney...