Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychological nature. The "coming God," as Baum sees him, offers man a special freedom to rise above the determinism of his psyche. "Human life is open-ended," Baum writes. The Word of God is a summons to man to transcend his past, the Spirit is the gift of grace to answer that summons...
...parallel attack on elm disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cross the disease-prone American elm with the hardy Siberian variety. Even if the hybrid is a success, elm lovers are not likely to be pleased. The new tree clearly lacks the grace of its American parent. "It has a single, central trunk rather than our beautiful vaselike division," says Hansel. "Who will want a tree that looks more like a maple than...
...also implies the existence of an Elect of God. America has presumed itself to be God's chosen remnant, to the point where it very nearly subscribes to the anthropocentric heresy of Pelagius, the 5th century Christian ascetic who argued that man could gain salvation without divine grace by his efforts alone. Put in secular terms, the Pelagianism of America means an unshakable faith in the righteousness of the U.S. "We tend to think," argues Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, "that it is not and cannot be evil at the center. We habitually believe that American intentions are good...
Clear Lake, Calif., is a shallow, 40,000-acre body of fresh water that lies about 100 miles north of San Francisco. For centuries, it was home for a large colony of Western grebes, lovely birds that swim with the stately grace of swans and dive as skillfully as loons. But 15 years ago, in an environmental tragedy unwittingly perpetrated by man, large numbers of grebes began dying off, and the once-clear waters of the lake turned murky and green. Now, by introducing a new ecological cycle, scientists have saved Clear Lake's grebes and even clarified...
...months ago (never-minding Brigitte Bardot, who had been topping her bikinis with it for a good while before that). Carita's colleague Alexandre got into the Concierge-Goulue act with a high-piled version winding up with a "brioche" for such style-setting clients as Princess Grace of Monaco and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes...