Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other members of the returning Harvard group were Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Albert B. Lord '34, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History; and John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...minor problem according to Lord is language differences. "They read English quite fluently and well, but some have not had much speaking experience...
Barth's inquiring pastor had asked whether he should resort to prayer to ''pray away" East Germany's Communist government. Replied Barth: "Would you really take the responsibility of approaching the Lord with such a plea? Aren't you afraid that God might grant your request and that some morning you might wake up among those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany...
...praying away" Communism because God's answer might be American "fleshpots." Chided Niebuhr: "The dilemma is so deep that I would prefer to let the eminent theologian stew in it for a while, at least until he realizes that he is not the only prophet of the Lord." Barth's attitude "always involves the danger of speaking after the imagination of our own hearts. It is subject to Jeremiah's condemnation about the false prophets...
...Night to Remember. A skillful recreation, based on Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller, of the sinking of the Titanic...