Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significance. The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations of Christianity, but they greatly contribute to the understanding of those foundations. As U.S. Old Testament Scholar Frank Cross of McCormick Theological Seminary puts it: the writers of the scrolls and of the New Testament "draw on common resources of language, theological themes, and concepts . . . The strange world of the New Testament becomes less baffling, less exotic." Says Hebrew Scholar Theodor Caster of Dropsie College: "They recover for us ... the backdrop of the stage on which the first act of the Christian drama was performed...
Although in quality these plays ranged from the verbal and visual excellence of Finnegans Wake to the dull pomposity of the Princeton effort, they all have one thing in common: none of them are easily comprehensible. Whether the difficulty involved in unraveling these plays is worth the effort must, in the end, be left to the taste, or perhaps the curiosity, of each individual member of the audience...
...gentlemen in charge of Foreign Service affairs had some more money for their Ambassadors and a bit more common sense in dealing with them, the morale and the efficiency of our representatives abroad would be noticeably improved...
...also attached special importance to plans for a study-bedroom for every member of the 350-student residence. According to present thinking, four such study-bedrooms would be grouped around a common living room and bath...
...points, made in relation to the paradox of knowledge, was the imbalance between "the intimate, familiar and old form of human knowledge" and that which is new, which is known either well by the few or vaguely by the many. He related this to the imbalance between what is "common knowledge" and "the enormous richness and beauty of information which is hoarded by just a few small groups...