Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not begin. But if it ends there, it ends! Existentialism of all types has confronted us with the loneliness and the uniqueness of personal life. Unless this individual is brought into an encounter with God-in-Christ so that his very existence is placed before the absolute judgment and mercy of God, he has not heard the 'gospel.' Unless he is 'converted,' he has not been initiated into the new life of Christ . . . My contention is that we must not give up the emphasis on the individual in evangelism, but, rather, must come...
...Snap Judgment. In St. Louis, Edwin Balk was fined $500 after his barber testified in court: "He asked for a short haircut, and that's what I gave him. After I got through, he looked in the mirror and yelled, 'You've cut off my sideburns,' then jumped out of the chair, threw the apron m my face and twisted my arm round until it broke...
...amending the Koran-only reading it right. The commission then went on to grapple with the touchy and important problem of reconciling progress with religion in a nation whose principal basis for being was its Moslem faith. The commission appealed to the right of ijtihad, or exercise of individual judgment within the broad framework of the revealed word. Moslem law, said the commission, holds that in the Koran "what is not definitely prohibited is permissible," and the failure of Moslems to exercise this right of individual judgment is the reason for the "universal backwardness" of the Moslem peoples...
Last week a robust Food & Drug Administration celebrated its 50th anniversary. Each year it passes judgment on the edibility, potability or safety of products worth more than $60 billion. Each week it removes an average of 98½ tons of contaminated food from the market−enough to feed poisonous meals to 131,000 people. It has driven from the nation's drugstore shelves such once popular devices as eye-cup-like gadgets to restore sight, has purged labels of fanciful prose; e.g., one imaginative drugmaker touted ordinary sarsaparilla as a cure for everything from "female complaints" to syphilis...
...horror, but joy." This brings Wilson close, as he acknowledges, to Nietzsche's Superman, the man who can say: I accept everything. As for Nietzsche, Wilson likens him to "a big gun with some trifling mechanical fault that explodes and kills all the crew." (Nietzsche's judgment of himself: "I am one of those machines that sometimes explode...