Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world that is becoming scientifically one, Christianity need not replace other religions. Since in their basic concepts-e.g., the idea of dying to gain life, the idea of renunciation as a condition of insight-the great religions are already "fused ... at the top," they can continue to exist within the framework of an overall world view which will "necessarily be Christian in substance." But to achieve leadership, Christianity must first recapture the "spiritual iron" that the East has never lost...
...neutralist can get got an ultimate answer from India's Jawaharlal Nehru. In a fantastic bit of purblind observation, the Great Neutral assured a worried world: "People who talk about Communist revolutions are-if I may say so-out of date. So-called international Communism does not really exist today...
...Girl Scouts of America, who will have no difficulty at all in identifying the trees. It is all very sad, but McNulty's work remains to lighten the loss. His art was as well-hidden and as obvious as a horse parlor. Officially it did not exist, but it was there...
...Madness of Excess. Operating from the underlying premise that God does not exist, Camus argued in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) that the certainty of death made life itself a ridiculous charade, and therefore "absurd." He likened man's lot to the somber task of the Greek mythic hero Sisyphus, who was condemned by the gods to roll a huge boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, to the end of time. But from this recognition Camus drew his own peculiar sustenance: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged," i.e., knowledge...
...reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began to set shortly after he settled at Versailles. On the shores of Lake Geneva stands the finest mausoleum since the Taj Mahal the Palace of the Nations, which opened in 1937 when the League of Nations "had practically ceased to exist...