Word: dialecticism
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Dark-haired, pretty Maude Phelps Hutchins, a professional artist and wife of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, likes to draw psychological studies of nude female figures, which she calls "dialectic" drawings. Last fall, she made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a...
The theology which lank, twinkling-eyed, pipe-smoking Karl Barth has been preaching for nearly 20 of his 51 years is not, on its face, adapted to evangelism. Yet Dr. Barth, a dynamic pulpit orator, filled chapels when he taught at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen...
Once the Christian churches, through their moral codes and their theological dialectic, impinged powerfully upon the behavior and thoughts of ordinary men. Today many a nominal Christian is tired of hearing about morals, and his uninformed indifference to theology is such that his pastors burden him with as little of...
Based on a full-scale acceptance of the Communistic dialectics and theory, "World Politics" is happily free from any barren dialectic exercises undertaken for their own sake and from any wanton quoting of the Marxist fathers and saints. It is one of the outstanding virtues of the book that it...
Another ex-New Dealer, General Hugh Johnson, whose own words are none too mild, wrote: "Freedom of speech, like trial by Jury, is a constitutional right-but not for Army officers. . . . The Army is for defense and not for dialectic. The minute it becomes a debating association in the public...