Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...institution, we need a holy discontent with the status quo. The Gospel calls for constant change. We cannot identify our Gospel with the past." On the other hand, warned Ford, the church should not be "the water boy of world revolution." Too many revolutions, he argued, "fail to grasp the heart of the problem, which is the problem of the human heart. They throw out one set of sinners and put in another...
...FRESHMAN who has not been filled with advice from "experienced" elders and with stories of college "hangups" from friends is a rare exception. Ironically, the people who probably have the best grasp of freshman problems are seldom consulted, even though readily available. This group, which comprises the Freshman Dean's Office, sees two general areas where each new student has problems: Fear of his classmates and self regulation...
...interfere where the honor of the University is at stake. The careless and cynic spirit should be frowned down; and everyone should seek to contribute, in the way most suited to his abilities, to the honor and eminence of Harvard. Let those who are blessed with a good biceps grasp the bat or the oar: let those who have not that too common holy reverence for a pen seek to relieve the prevailing dearth of contributions for the College papers. - nor does he do the least who leaves College with a general average of ninety-plus per cent...
Economists have no firmer grasp of many potentially critical labor trends. They cannot gauge the severity of the labor shortages that are raising production costs by forcing businessmen to rely on untrained and inefficient workers. The Government collects no figures on job vacancies to match against its thorough reports on the number of workers unemployed. More surprising, no one really knows how rapidly wage costs are rising this year. The Government currently tallies only wage-and-benefit gains in union contracts covering 5,000 or more workers, and these contracts affect only 10% of the U.S. Labor force. Fuller wage...
...measure of Graham Greene's talent as a novelist that he has personified his theological preoccupations in provocative fictions and made them seem fascinating, various and relevant to a secular age. Just how consistent and dogged Greene's grasp upon his own certitudes is may also be observed in this collection of character sketches and literary criticism-not always in ways calculated to enhance his reputation for balanced judgment. Greene writes about the great dead, among them James, Conrad and Hardy, and steadily mines their graves for texts on death, damnation and moral corruption. By compulsively and compassionately...