Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sidney Hook, New York Times: "No one can doubt the sincerity of his hard-won faith, that he has found in it, after much agony, a healing peace and humility. As a quest for personal salvation, it will command the respect of those who cannot share his cosmic hope and whose natural piety takes other forms . . . The view that man must worship either God or Stalin faces many formidable theoretical difficulties and has the most mischievous practical consequences . . . Deeply religious men speak with the same divided counsels as nonreligious men about the specific problems of war, peace, poverty and foreign...
None of the acupuncturists had any doubts as to the efficacy of their gold and silver needles, with which they claim to restore the cosmic equilibrium between the forces of yang (positive) and yin (negative). When a man has an ache or pain, either yang or yin is getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility...
...From carbon 14, which is formed in the atmosphere by cosmic rays and is taken up by living plants. It loses half its strength in some 5,600 years, and so indicates the date when organic matter, such as wood, was formed...
...American Unitarian Association, has his own estimate of the mood of orthodox Protestantism today: "Black reaction and black pessimism." The doctrine being emphasized, said Dr. Eliot at a Unitarian meeting in Cincinnati, "is one of absolute despair, which sets up as the only possible avenue of escape from cosmic disaster abject submission to deity, the unquestioned acceptance of religious authoritarian creeds, and the futility of human effort...
...Preston is fine as the just short of half-witted onetime halfback. But what raises the play a full notch or more is its infectious nonsense. It sufficiently portrays the male animal in relation to the female, but it exhibits him even more as a leading specimen in the cosmic...