Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naked," says Father John Dunne of Notre Dame. "It's always in a form. Modern man loves myth as much as his ancestors. It's just that OUF own myths are not as easy to see." In the same way, it is too easy an answer to dismiss the Trinitarian formula as mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human psyche and to the fact that the answers given by the Nazarene rabbi who died on the Cross...
LUNCHEON OR LUNCH BUT NOT BRUNCH! advised Emily Post. It took her only ten lines to dismiss the custom as a "single-headed, double-bodied deformity 'standees' of at a lunch language" that counter but not "suggests the beauty of hospitable living." That was in the 1950 edition of Etiquette. The current edition takes a different view of brunch, calls it "a pleasant sort of informal, even casual entertaining," offers tips on how to dress and what to serve. Moving with the times, the post-Post posture simply acknowledges that going out to Sunday brunch with family...
...courts--what controls, for example, should be placed on plea bargaining, the process by which a great majority of cases are disposed of without trial in the lower courts, either through a decision to dismiss the case or a plea of guilty...
...Provide that "the jury is the exclusive judge of what the common conscience of the community is," that all obscenity cases shall be tried by jury "unless both parties waive a jury," and that "the court shall have no power to dismiss an obscenity proceeding if reasonable men could differ as to whether the material is obscene." All of which seems to contradict the Supreme Court's current doctrine that obscenity cases involve not only questions of fact for a jury but also constitutional issues that can be decided only by trial judges, appellate courts and the nation...
...need not be the conventional Sunday service at the parish church down the street; it is just as likely to be an unauthorized, experimental liturgy celebrated by a radical priest-friend in his own living room. Irreverence toward ecclesiastical tradition is common among Uncatholics. They tend to dismiss the veneration of Mary as irrelevant today and refer to the Mass as "the magic show." More seriously, these Catholics ask whether the church needs a Pope, or even whether the institutional church itself is necessary...