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...editorial confused the role of the Church as a teacher of the faithful with actions of certain individuals and pressure groups manipulating political power. This subtle distinction is valid and important in this context. If the economic functioning of the United States movie industry has been impeded more than what the lack of Catholic patronage (20 per cent of the population) would admit, this has been the work of individuals wielding political and economic sanctions independently of the authority of the Church as a body of the faithful. The representation of these people and groups as the concensus...
Next the fragments are classified as to whether they are Biblical or nonBiblical. Even a single word with a few letters of the words preceding and following it may be identified in this way by consulting a concordance which lists every word in the Bible in its immediate context. Noncanonical works from the Apocrypha and unknown writings of the Qumran sect are identified more slowly by their use of key words and characteristic phrases...
...attempting to catch up on developments in various areas of learning, one may be tempted to pick up a survey of some field, but even here there is the problem of word meanings. For a word which once had one connotation may have acquired--in the context of a particular field or with the passing of time--an entirely different shading. Oppenheimer later defined objectivity as a qualitative observation which measures the degree to which people can talk about something and be sure of the words they are using...
Mark Roskill's poem about Hadrian is straightforward but unconvincing. Its impact depends upon the reading of two words, "resurrect," and "facile," words which the poetic context does not define for me. As a result, the poem is, for me, an amusement...
...regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever is a tireless, able, dedicated, imaginative officer who is respected both as an executive and as an engineer. He has learned in the wind tunnel of the America of the '30s, '40s and '50s the best concepts and best context of his community. "Action," "dynamic" and "capability" are among his favorite words, and all three have come to a knot in Missileman Schriever at a critical point in time. "We simply must maintain the deterrent capability," he repeats insistently. "It's our main objective in life...