Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacraments in U.S. churches tends to glorify the churchgoer more than Christ." Barth cites four examples of sacramentalist tendencies: infant baptism, the tendency to entrust church decisions to officials and committees rather than congregations, Protestant leanings toward the Roman Catholic concept of the church as mediator of grace rather than as witness of grace. Furthermore, "we have largely the wrong idea of the Communion. In Biblical times the Lord's Supper was interpreted as an act by which God shows that he reaches out to the community. Today it seems to be an act in which we draw together...
...Absence of Grace. When The Fall begins, Jean-Baptiste has long since abandoned Paris and the law for a stool in a sleazy Amsterdam bar. There he hangs like a gin-soaked albatross around the neck of a long-suffering listener, perhaps meant to be the reader himself. To this shadowy confidant, Jean-Baptiste bares his soul-or, rather, picks the scabs off it. The trouble with doing good, he reveals, is the monumental vanity of it. The moment comes when a man realizes that "he can't love without self-love...
...will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action." Is God the answer? He is "out of style." Is there a second chance? No, Adam used up man's only chance. In Camus' existentially-locked universe of absurdity and guilt without divine grace, no one ever releases the sinner from his cell. As The Fall ends, Jean-Baptiste apostrophizes the girl he allowed to drown: " 'O young woman, throw yourself into the water again so that I may a second time have the chance of saving both of us!' A second...
...sharpest drop in years, and production last week in the nation's mills slipped slightly to 97.1% of capacity. Nevertheless, the industry's spokesmen stood firm on their previous estimates that 1957 will be a good year. Said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace: "The industry is in a better position than at any time in its history. I don't think there's a person in the steel industry who doesn't think operations will be at capacity for the first six months of the year.'' Bethlehem Steel reported...
...Grace's cheery view was echoed by U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough. Said the No. 1 U.S. steelmaster: the first-quarter steel outlook was "excellent" and the second quarter should be "a very good period." U.S. Steel's directors underscored their confidence by hiking the quarterly dividend from 65? to 75? a share...