Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humiliating Emphasis
A cutting from TIME, Oct. 11, has been forwarded to me by an American friend. I am both humiliated and distressed to discover that . . . emphasis has been placed on minor remarks of a jocular nature, to the entire disfavor of Kent School, whereas the serious side of Kent life, which...
Those pioneers and leaders of the "Age of Enlightenment,"-Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Leibnitz, Locke-put too much emphasis on reason, said Dr. Beck. The intellect, he added stoutly, is not enough. "We know from the history of our own times that the intellect has been a disappointment. It has...
Says Theologian Niebuhr: Barth is preaching a dangerous doctrine. The care of the Church is most certainly our care, and to prove it, he cites Saint Paul (I Corinthians 12). Earth's emphasis on "what we cannot do" is really a temptation to Christians "to share the victory and...
Earlier in the evening, Miss Mead had discussed sex standards from a cultural viewpoint, with especial emphasis on the family arrangement. She said that in this country "we still have a basically puritanic attitude to sex, using it as an end to marriage, but never for its own sake."