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...whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that his belief is one which is tremendously meaningful, but who must demur from advocating...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Divorces Preaching from Pedagogy Dominant University Attitude: Commitment to Non-Commitment | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that his belief is one which is tremendously meaningful, but who must demur from advocating...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Faculty Eschews Pedagogical Proselytizing | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...Cyril Cusack is richly humorous and yet realistic as Josie's sly, disreputable father. At his best, Franchot Tone is a memorably quiet Jim. Wendy Hiller, not seen on Broadway since The Heiress, again gives a beautiful performance, again raises, through no fault of her own, a small demur. Glowingly vital and magnetic, Actress Hiller could never really quite seem a colorless, mousy heiress, nor seems now an oversized half-freak. Her acting brings some of its most resonant moments to O'Neill's play, but never quite authenticates the plight of O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Many commentators on the political scene are taking the stand that the G.O.P. needs to "liberalize" . . . I demur. What the country really needs is . . . an honest-to-goodness opposition party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Next day De Gaulle announced his decision: the R.P.F. would put up a fight in all French towns of any size. With some misgivings but without demur his committee accepted the decision. Perhaps De Gaulle, who had been right so many times in the past, would be right again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Great Gamble | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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