Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead? The three words represent a summons to reflect on the meaning of existence. No longer is the question the taunting jest of skeptics for whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago. Even within Christianity, now confidently renewing itself in spirit as well as form, a small band of radical theologians has seriously argued that the churches must accept the fact of God's death, and get along without him. How does the issue differ from the age-old assertion that God does...
...four faculty members, topics being suggested in advance by the students. The result is usually, as one Winthrop tutor put it, "a free-for-all between students and faculty with Chalmers playing the role of chief needler." It is for such an intellectual exchange that he feels the Houses exist: "If you put a lot of bright people together in the right atmosphere, they're bound to educate each other...this is one of the primary purposes of the Houses...
...would have to have the expository skill to write a lengthy paper without the benefit of an extra year's experience. He would have to take enough departmental courses in his first two years to be able to choose and research a thesis topic intelligently. But such students do exist...
Both press secretary Bill D. Moyers and his boss have circumscribed the press's ability to open up lines of communication between the President and the people. Washington correspondents should not exist solely to pass on White House press releases. They should also provide the public with a clear understanding of the rationale and implications of executive decisions, within the confines of national security...
...proportionately greater than in the West. Calling everything by its orthodox name helped keep things in order. The emperors were constantly spelling out the true doctrines, having them read in the Confucian temples and studied by all scholars. Heterodoxy and deviation could not be permitted, or if they did exist, could not be acknowledged to exist. Even when the foreigners were more powerful, the myth of China's superiority had to be solemnly recorded and preserved in ritual. This stress on orthodoxy strikes one today when Peking is continuing its nationwide indoctrination in Chairman Mao's true teachings...