Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easier to see signs of Evangelical life than to define exactly what an Evangelical is. The movement cuts across many denominational lines and includes a number of distinct subgroups. Among them: Fundamentalists, the militant right-wing churchmen who oppose all accommodation...
From the 7th through 12th centuries, medieval Spain, isolated on the Iberian peninsula, developed an artistic tradition distinct from the rest of Europe's. Visigoth and Muslim influences brought a pagan exoticism to Spain's Christian art, particularly in illuminated manuscripts. Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination by John Williams (Braziller; 119 pages; $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper) provides illuminations of its own, offering plates from such works as the Beatus Commentary on the Book of Revelation that dazzle the reader with apocalyptic visions of weeping angels and rapacious beasts, saints and sinners, heaven and hell...
...impetuous act to some. One U.S. diplomat saw a similarity to the habits of his own boss: "Sadat gets ideas and runs with them. He's a bit like Jimmy Carter, who sometimes says more than his prudent advisers think smart." Although the timing of the trip was a distinct surprise, Sadat's determination to instigate some movement toward peace in the Middle East by a dramatic act began to take form as early as spring...
...ties binding the Convention candidates together is their common position on general housing policy--rent control, the halting of condominium conversion and of vacancy decontrol. The reformers believe the continuation of rent control will help to preserve the distinct ethnic and social neighborhoods in Cambridge and to protect moderate and lower income residents from rent inflation caused by the desire of more affluent people--some of them Harvard-affiliated--to rent or buy property in Cambridge...
...opposite trends: the gradual slowing down of the growth rate in the developed nations, and the rapid acceleration of the rate in the developing countries. The experience of the developed countries gave rise to the theory of the demographic transition. It holds that societies tend to move through three distinct demographic stages: 1) high birth rates and high death rates, resulting in near stationary populations; 2) high birth rates but declining death rates, producing growing populations; and finally, 3) low birth rates and low death rates, re-establishing near stationary populations...