Word: deadness
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Supermarket shoppers perusing the publication rack must have felt a dose of Weltschmerz as they waited for their frozen peas to be scanned. “Is God Dead?” read the Apr. 8, 1966, cover of Time Magazine, rendering the question in red typeface on a stark black background. The Nietzschean challenge emerged in the context of an immense cultural despair. Faced with a world so complex, so seemingly contradictory, a vocal group of American theologians—described in the magazine’s lead story—was seeking to radically re-envision a Christianity...
...section of the 2009-10 Harvard Student Handbook, “no student may keep an animal in a building owned or leased by the College.” However, like many other regulations at Harvard, this one has been subject to loose interpretation by students. During the dead of night in rooms from the river to the quad, one can hear the tweets, squeaks, purrs, and ribbits of these furry intruders...
...cover image for the April 8, 1966, issue of TIME was the first in the magazine's history to use only words: "Is God Dead?" The story brought a brimstone of controversy, but given the depth of the reporting, few could argue that the writer had not done his homework. "It would have been easier to do in the Middle Ages," John Elson said of the story. "Easier because they had a God then that was consistent." The pungent, witty remark was vintage Elson, who died on Sept. 7 at 78. In his four decades at TIME, Elson wrote more...
...much." He had liked her too; they confessed their old crushes on each other through MySpace and arranged to meet in person the next time Stein was in town. But when she met him at a bar, she was immediately disappointed. He had gained weight, worked in a dead-end job and had already been engaged three times. "I was like, um, no," she says...
...think he’s going to be a very good player over the next four years.” Rounding out the group was senior Danny Mayer, who finished in a five-way tie for 72nd, shooting +15. For a team that finished ninth last year and dead last two years ago, Harvard is looking forward to making noise this year. “This tournament shows the improvement we’ve made over the last two years,” Pollak said. Both Pollak and Shuman stressed the importance of beating Dartmouth and Princeton, the other...