Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third book, newly translated into English, is a study of the doctrine of the church-the church being defined as "the present realization of the remembrance and hope of Christ." Moltmann believes that the church, caught in the ambiguities of the present, must grasp both the past and the future. Without this balance, he warns, the maintenance of church institutions can become all-important, and belief in Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection could "decay into a powerless historical recollection...
...essentially empty, so that it throws its few symbolic structures into high relief. And the film's three title characters have the air of dream works about them. Tantalizingly, even hilariously real some of the time in speech and manner, they yet manage to drift away, eluding the grasp of understanding...
...have wandered back into the wilderness towards Hanover Saturday wondering whether there is not in fact some divine power guiding Harvard's crews to victory week after week. In a series of freak events--helped along by the choppy Charles--three Dartmouth crews watched certain victories slip from their grasp...
...problems for Carter's appointees and advising the commutation of G. Gordon Liddy's Watergate sentence. A rapidly rising member of the Carter staff is Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart E. Eizenstat, 34. Although quiet and self-effacing, he has gained the respect of his colleagues for his grasp of complex issues. Carter too has taken notice. Said he, after the Administration's meetings on the energy program: "Stu has been very impressive in these meetings. He's really impressed me with his ideas and his understandings...
...mind honest criticism of Heart Throbs or any of our programs, but we feel that Whitaker's review lacks a grasp of the basic concepts and information portrayed in the films--concepts and information almost universally understood...