Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President pointed to the "amazing outburst of creative activity" during the Class of 1957's years at University as evidence of renewed interest in the humanities. "This is something which less, we may assume, in libraries and will surely make these years memorable, in music, in the theatre, in art--and not less, we may assume, in libraries and laboratories," Pusey stated...
...emphasized that the new interest in religion is not against methodical thinking, but "it will not be completely limited or held back by methodical thinking when such limitation seems to mean turning away from the richness of experience and the fullness of life...
Pusey also attributed the new interest in religion with a concern for getting over the "entirely unacceptable notion that faith is a matter of indifference." He affirmed that faith is "something given, not won" and called for inquiry into what it is, a study of its manifestations in history and religious literature, and a quest for its "life-giving influence...
What men are trying to do, Pusey asserted, is "not again to set up something which will be restrictive, but rather to refuse to be restricted by a secular orthodoxy...." He admitted that he hoped the new " intellectual interest in the role of faith would not stop at this point ...., but lead to a questing about the object of faith in an effort to give meaning and content to the word...
...State John Foster Dulles and Minnesota's Stevensonian Democrat Hubert Humphrey are many shades apart. Yet last week Senator Humphrey and Secretary Dulles emerged arm in arm from a conference at Dulles' home in which Dulles heaped laurels on Humphrey. Reason: so sharp an impression of U.S. interest had Humphrey created during a four-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, so well did he defend U.S. policy there, that diplomatic cables into Foggy Bottom were buzzing with well-dones...