Word: discern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether the substance of the assembly will prove as avant-garde as its style remains to be seen. But the World Council's General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake warned that "the ecclesiastical establishment worldwide had better look hard to try to discern what God is now requiring of us as we are disturbed by the rods of anger." Added Ceylon's Pastor Niles: "Everywhere in our world today events are taking place which reveal that God is doing a new thing among...
...attempting to discern the validity of these two alternatives, I undertook to answer two questions: How do the people of Cambridge feel about birth control and family planning? What is the role of the physician in giving birth control information? For my inquiry I chose census tract 15, bounded by Western Ave., Putnam Ave. and Green Street. This area ranks slightly high (about the 66th percentile) in social disorder and inadequate living conditions. Students and professors are widely dispersed among lower and middle class families, 37 per cent non-white and 14 per cent foreign-born. The sample...
Inquiries are met with empty references to the "male community," an intellectual version of the "Be home at twelve, Johnny!" that 16-year-olds get from their parents. Behind the parietal regulations, the administrative surrogate for parents, one cannot help but discern the Board of Overseers, waiting to clamp down on any infringement of the peculiar elements of the Harvard tradition that they so disproportionately asteem...
...circle of light . . ." and Rooks cuts to a grey sky with an optically created circle of light in the middle of the frame. Through focus changes, we see at the very end of the shot that the circle of light is, in fact, a sunset. Through camerawork, then, we discern both the object and the drugged interpretation of the object, giving us a rare understanding of the experience Rooks illustrates...
Revelatory Moments. Some religious thinkers believe that they discern a trend toward renewed veneration of objects as symbols of sacred value. Chicago's Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty suggests that the trend is exemplified, to some extent, by the hippies' reverence for flowers. Marty suggests that the Holy Land shrines may come to seem even more precious than ever-as symbols of spiritual meaning and of the decisive "revelatory moments" that changed the course of man's history...