Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fairlington Presbyterian Church in Virginia, for example, intends to base his Easter sermon on Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Gammon's point: George and Martha's play-long dialogue about their nonexistent son suggests contemporary man's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Methodist Church uses movies and folk-rock songs as themes. Last year he related one sermon to a line from Fellini's La Strada-Anthony Quinn's complaint, "All I want...
...vaguely identified with Stalinism and tended to be apologists for it, while still recognizing its bad features. Those distinctions exist in virtually the exact same way today. We of the anti-Communist Left are still attacked by the others as "red-baiters," and we still reply that one must distinguish between the reactionary anti-Communism of the Right and the anti-Communism of any believer in democracy and civil liberties. To be sure, changes have taken place in the Communist world, but everyone on the Left recognizes that. There is absolutely no question of "Old" and "New" involved here...
...value. Catholic veneration of the martyrs, however, indicates that the preservation of personal integrity is sometimes superior to the preservation of human life. The sacrifice of life for a higher value is, in this case, seen as moral. If Catholic moral theology is to be consistent, it ought to distinguish between the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of human personality...
...Kooros uses criteria regarding shape and markings to distinguish rough tools from ordinary bone scraps. She feeds the criteria to a computer, which measures how well the description of each bone meets these standards...
...ribbon, ten-day 1967 Winter Antiques Show, which opened last week, has doubled in the past decade and is expected to reach 30,000 this year. Another sign is inflation; prices in the past year have commonly risen 5% even greater if more people felt confident that they could distinguish fine pieces from fakes. Unfortunately, the amateur shopping at a seaside "gifte shoppe" is all too likely to wind up paying $50 for a $10 copy of a $500 original...