Word: graspingly
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...well as forward. Tatian held that the soul is as mortal as the body, but that it can be saved by God. Immortality is not the Christian hope, said Tatian, but "life eternal"-which means living in God. And God grants this only to those who do not grasp for immortality, but submit to death. "Die to the world and repudiate its madness. Live to God, take hold of Him, and lay aside your old nature...
...Call It Trivial." Where the pundits of the press have long underscored the importance of ideas and idealism in U.S. Government, now they praised Kennedy for his grasp of parochial politics. Glowed Columnist Doris Fleeson: "Kennedy is yielding every minor point to Vice President-elect Johnson and the Rayburri-Mansfield leadership of Congress as the New Frontiers approach. His apparent strategy is to give them enough rope, which is the classic maneuver of power politics. They are being consulted and shown every deference." Wrote the New York Post's liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item...
Congratulating the seminar on "their clear, scientific grasp of the problems involved," Menzel stated that the video tape proposal would be "seriously considered in setting the final specifications of the satellite...
When lovely woman stoops to the folly of autobiography, the enterprise is all too often flawed by malice, self-pity or a simple failure to grasp the fact that a book is not always interesting to others because its author is interesting to herself. Lady Diana Cooper escapes these dangers. From the first volume of her three-decker autobiography, The Rainbow Comes and Goes (TIME, Oct. 27, 1958), it was clear that Lady Diana is a natural if artless self-historian. Moreover, she has the great advantage that almost every one-she knows is Someone...
...characteristic ways, though always it was the teacher who communicated enthusiasm whom they remembered well. Some of the graduates attacked scholars and researchers "I am really upset about ... philosophy ... becoming academic." Others remembered the excitement of heating researcher teach: "the people who are better organized and have a firm grasp of the material are the people who are really doing some exceptional things in their field ... are makes the whole field come alive or speak to you..." Yet even where the graduates disagreed on researcher vs. teacher, there was a consensus that the appeal of a good teacher...