Word: distinguisher
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Barth has produced a black Bible that proceeds not to revelation but to further mystification. At bottom, he seems to be saying that even the bestial can be beautiful if the beholder believes it to be so. He faults man's failure to distinguish pragmatically between truth and belief. And, as in his earlier writings, he bleakly seems to say that anything can be true if it is in the nature of the believer to believe...
Within a week of the groundbreaking for the Widener Library the creation of the Harvard University Press for the purpose of publishing works of "high scholarly standards" was announced. But just as Harvard's attempts to distinguish itself further as a university were getting into high gear, discussions on other matters which would become as important were just beginning...
...camera shot pictures of the area near its feet. The pictures showed no clouds of dust-another indication that the lunar surface is firmly packed. By week's end, as the sun rose toward its apex in the lunar sky, shortening shadows and making it more difficult to distinguish lunar objects, Surveyor had already taken and transmitted more than 2,000 pictures. Because Surveyor landed in the morning of the two-week lunar daytime, period, its TV camera should be able to operate for about twelve days, powered by batteries that will be constantly recharged by solar cells...
Over the years, many Jews from Eastern Europe have arbitrarily changed their name to Cohen even though they have no claim to priestly descent. As a result, rabbis are perplexed as to how to distinguish true kohanim from impostors-a particularly touchy problem if the Jerusalem Temple is ever rebuilt and priests are once again summoned to their hereditary ministry there. "Only the Messiah will be able to tell," says one Jerusalem rabbi...
...isotopes, emitting gamma rays that can be recorded by the snooper's scintillation counter. Since silver isotopes, like radioactive atoms of other elements, have their own characteristic half life-or rate of decay-and emit gamma rays at a specific energy level, the snooper's detectors can distinguish them from atoms of other elements in the area that have also been made radioactive by the neutron beam...