Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Rev. James A. Pike has long contended that what Christianity needs is fewer beliefs but more belief. In his previous ventures into pop theology, the resigned Episcopal Bishop of California has been mostly concerned with explaining why he regards such dogmas as the Trinity and the Virgin Birth as beliefs he can do without. Now, in a new book called If This Be Heresy (Harper & Row; $4.95), Pike tries to explain what he does accept and why, summing up his formula for faith in a neat little equation: "data + inference = modest faith-affirmation...
...public," Randall Jarrell once wrote, "has an unusual relation with the poet. It does not even know that he is there." As if to refute this bitter complaint against an unpoetic age, two dozen of Jarrell's brother poets have joined in lament for his death and to explain the mysterious ways in which this minor poet had been of major importance to them...
...Madame: Hi. Glorious morning, isn't it?"). She plays games with herself such as How Can That Be?, in which she makes up an impossible situation, asks herself "How can that be?" and is disappointed if she cannot concoct a way it could be. She is unable to explain, for instance, why "an upside-down-speedboat made of rose petals was in orbit around the moon...
Vassar Vulgarity. Dr. Hartogs had to suffer another traumatic experience before he could explain all about the mechanic, the wheel and the word. The impetus was the 1959 federal court decision that D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene. Later that week, at a "fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar...
...highly successful (if provoked) act of aggression was greeted with enthusiasm by most West European intellectuals." How explain this enthusiasm among so many "Third-World-befriend-ing, antimilitarist intellectuals? Is it that beneath these attitudes there lies something very different-a long-frustrated wish to revenge the humiliation of the past 20 years, to take it out on the fuzzy-wuzzies, as the 'European' Israelis decidedly did? Is it possible, further, that the anti-Americanism of European intellectuals expresses not so much a wish for the triumph of North Viet Nam's peasant army...