Word: discerning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defy the laws of chance or mere coincidence. It is just such phenomena that are currently being investigated by parapsychologists under the general heading of ESP, extrasensory perception: telepathy, communication from one mind to another without normal means; precognition, the prediction of future events; clairvoyance, the power to discern objects not present to the senses; and psychokinesis, the movement of material objects with the mind. While investigations go on, though, such gifts pose a problem for Christians. The Old Testament expressly forbids soothsaying; but the prophets' sort of future prediction was an obvious exception. The New Testament phenomenon of spiritual...
...based on Kurosawa's sense of irony. For instance, when the samurai enters the town, the first sight that greets him is of a small dog. Rinky-dink music accompanies the dog as he trots towards the foreground. Finally, the animal is in perfect focus and one can discern that in its mouth is--a human hand...
However, the writer added. "Teachers by negative example can be really used only by exposing and criticizing them. All reactionary fallacies and shameless slanders by these teachers are at once openly reactionary and fairly deceptive. If no earnest study and incisive criticism are carried out, people often cannot discern and understand very well where the poison is and how deceptive these fallacies and slanders are. Only through revolutionary mass cricism in which such wares have been thoroughly criticized and reactionary fallacies refuted and their deceptive and counter-revolutionary essence exposed can the masses' militant determination to struggle against the enemy...
...lawn auditioning young actresses for a new movie. Parts of that film-conceived of as a kind of satire on Belle de Jour in which men run a brothel catering to perverse women customers-becomes a movie within Maidstone. It is, indeed, often impossible to discern which of the two films we are watching...
...Malamud has ever written. In past stories and novels such as The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, suffering usually stretched a character's awareness of life's tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's flesh, and the author labors to discern some faint compassion in the violence. Like Lesser, Malamud too has had trouble finishing his book. The difficulty is underscored by an epilogue in which Levenspiel, the landlord whom circumstance has also made a victim of the combat, sets up a liturgical cry for mercy. In effect...