Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian authority to teach the gospel, Newbigin declared, derives from the fact that the "total event of Christ" was indeed an event, on whose reality all men were agreed, and was not merely a teaching or a philosophy. Modern Christians may teach greater men than themselves for the same reason that the rabble of the time could enter heaven before their greater contemporaries--because the established religious men of the day were concerned with their own self-righteousness. In the "total event of Christ" Newbigin stated, men were--and are--confronted with a demand over and above the demands...
...satisfied air a cloak veiling deep festering pools of insidious despair. They feared a crack-up were his troubles perpetually suppressed. And possibly they perceived in his calm something more than merely "taking things in stride"--saw the serious threat he posed to the whole community. In any event, they sought his confidence, and encouraged their friend to unveil by confessing with their own qualms. And this was the beginning of the end for old Falstaff...
...whole, it seems obvious to Dr. Calvin that on other planets life may have developed to a "posthuman" state, in which creatures on man's level have been succeeded by some higher organism. Dr. Calvin's conclusion: "Life is not a rather special and unique event on one of the minor planets around an ordinary sun at the edge of one of the minor galaxies in the universe," but "a state of matter widely distributed throughout the universe...
...this time, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe Dance Group get together to produce one of the few Cambridge musical bargains having a universal appeal. Although the quality of the two groups varies from year to year, their joint free-of-charge concert at Sanders Theatre is an event of note even on the off-years...
...Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg, West Germany's fine jumping team was having things its own way last week. With only two competitors still to jump in the fault and out event, Germany's Olympic Champion Hans Winkler, 32, had cleared the ten jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing...