Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religion may require. But . . . to effect a revival of liturgical art it would be safer to turn to geniuses without faith than to believers without talent." Couturier missed one point: the improvising geniuses of an age weak in formal faith can scarcely be expected to rival those of the distant past, who possessed both the strength of faith and the assurance of an accepted style. Though Christian art is not quite dead today, any comparison with Van Eyck's vital and assured 500-year-old masterpiece can make it seem...
Pakistan appreciate . . . that it is not enough to offer a warm welcome and a friendly cup of tea ... Incentives must be given to industrialists before they can be expected to undertake new ventures in a foreign and distant land...
...however, there was none. In 1945, at Provost Buck's request, Irving W. Bailey, Professor of Plant Anatomy, produced a report on Botany and its Applications at Harvard reviewing the University's sprawling resources in the field. At that time work was split up between nine institutions, one as distant as Cuba and all going their separate ways. Harvard, as Professor Bailey put it, "has acquired too many nests to brood over, and certain of the eggs are beginning to decompose rather than hatch...
...saved by Christianity, but not as it is embodied in the existing churches. In fact, a return to orthodoxy would be merely a false and temporary refuge. Instead, Toynbee suggests a kind of spontaneous rally of faith, possibly even the emergence of a new spiritual species. In the distant future, he foresees a kind of blending of all the higher religions-"a terrestrial Communion of Saints who would be free from sin . . . because each soul . . . would be cooperating with God at the cost of sore spiritual travail...
...Columbia student has listened to respected lecturers and continued to pursue his academic life while the Bicentennial office in Low Memorial Library planned ways to unite the world in a reaffirmation of the ideal of freedom of knowledge. The academic activity of the University for 1954 have been curiously distant from each other. Students, aside from two student government, staged conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences in the Spectator. Perhaps as anything has come to making this year stand out over...