Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are tolerating all opinions," he complains. "We have a vacuum. It used to be that books had to have an imprimatur, but now a Catholic has no way of knowing what relation a new book might have to Catholic teaching. The theologians and the journalists are running the church." To bring a more conservative circle of journalists and theologians to the fore, Baker recently helped found a scholarly new quarterly, Communio...
...COUNTRY and FIGHT COMMUNISM. Though the bogus stamps carried no rate and no official imprimatur declaring them to be U.S. postage, the postal service canceled them and sent the letters on their way, pre- sumably unable to recognize free enterprise when...
...literature published by the Society for Psychical Research. When Rhine later joined the faculty of Duke University, he began a lifelong devotion to psychic research. It was he who coined the terms extrasensory perception and psi (for psychic phenomena); it was he who gave his specialty an academic imprimatur by compiling mountains of statistics about psychic subjects who could "read" cards that they could...
...institutions offer such training (although the University of Southern California still has the nation's only full-fledged department of emergency medicine). Other efforts are also under way to upgrade emergency care. The 4,000-member American College of Emergency Physicians has already won the provisional imprimatur of the A.M.A.; the college hopes to have emergency medicine recognized as a separate specialty...
Could this be opera? Or even anti-opera? State Opera Director Rolf Liebermann clearly thought it belonged in an opera house; he commissioned the piece, called Kyldex 1, as the 23rd and final new work to open under his imprimatur at Hamburg (he now moves to the Paris Opera). So did the man who created Kyldex, Parisian Kinetic Artist Nicolas Schöffer, 60, who spoke of his audiovisual creation as "a new step on the road toward communication and the socialization...