Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then turned her upon her left side, so as to permit the blood to escape; after which we closed the external opening. In five days I visited her, and much to my astonishment found her engaged in making up her bed . . . and in 25 days she returned home in good health...
...ablest writers of thrillers (Journey into Fear) and movie scripts (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), evades the answers to these questions quite as skillfully as Novelist Hammond Innes did in the 1956 bestseller on which this film is based, and the result is a sloshing good scupperful of salt water and suspense. Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has kept the story going full ahead, and has wrung a remarkable amount of histrionic blood from one of cinema's best-known stones, the face of Gary Cooper...
...psychosocial man, concerned with human destiny and with experiences of sacredness and transcendence." They are "organizations of human thought" for coping with the difficult world, serving as a refuge from loneliness or an "umbrella of divine authority" against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because it conflicts with fundamentalist beliefs...
...good thing that in Connecticut and Massachusetts women should be subject to grievous suffering because Roman Catholic pressure refuses to allow even doctors to give information on birth control even to non-Catholics.* It was not a good thing for Christians to persecute and even burn heretics; it is not a good thing when Communism, in its dogmatic-religious aspect, persecutes and even executes deviationists...
Facts & Faith. By contrast, the new religion, said Sir Julian, "could be a good thing. It will believe in knowledge. It will be able to take advantage of the vast amount of new knowledge produced by the knowledge explosion of the last few centuries in constructing what we may call its theology-the framework of facts and ideas which provide it with intellectual support...