Word: formulas
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Medieval scholastics, following the sages of ancient Greece, defined God as "subsisting Being Itself"-a Supreme Creator whose essence is identical with his existence. Whatever value the formula once had, says Dewart, it no longer accords with contemporary philosophical conceptions of being, which limit the word to knowable, created things and to men. Moreover, Christian belief is not an intellectual acquiescence in the idea of God as Supreme Being, but involves "a leap of faith"-an act of total self-commitment to God as a transcendent reality who is at once absent and present to man. In the future, Dewart...
...thing is that this simple-minded formula works. It may be of limited interest to non-Bretons that the author was "the first Lebris de Kérouac ever to go back to France in 10 years." Or that he "had come to France and Brittany just to look up this old name of mine, which is just about three thousand years old and was never changed in all that time, as who would change a name that simply means House (Ker), in the Field (Ouac)." Yet the bounce and burble of Kerouac's gusto and dropout grammar carry...
...would seem possible, of course, for the United States to develop a formula for inexpensive CB weapons without letting the secret out to the public. But once it is known that such a formula exists, people are more likely to have the initiative to duplicate it. Meselson does not carry his argument this far -- he simply implies that if we must have mass annihilators, expensive ones are less undesirable than cheap ones...
...every family in the nation, or every poor family, that the best thing would be to give them the cash and let them spend it on things they think they need most, which might well be formal education for many, but is surely to be more varied than any formula laid down in Washington would permit...
...charge that boards are arbitrary in their decisions, now plucking one Peace Corpsman from the Phillipines, now blessing a second's trip to Nigeria, the Commission will ask for Selective Service National Headquarters to establish strict guidelines for deferment. Selective Service officials admit the local boards will follow any formula the national headquarters hands them -- they have too many men to classify to do otherwise -- and that the guidelines have been left vague on the theory that a man unsure of his draft status is a man who may enlist...