Word: matthew
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...doctrine relied mainly upon the threat of nuclear retaliation to deter not only big wars but also little wars. Lacking strategic nuclear punch, the Army was assigned only a relatively minor role in U.S. defense planning. After Korea the Army gradually dwindled to 14 understrength divisions. Renowned Army Generals Matthew Ridgway, James Gavin and Maxwell D. Taylor resigned in protest against the down-rating of the Army. In his clamor-making book The Uncertain Trumpet, Taylor attacked what he considered excessive reliance on nuclear retaliation...
...surprisingly, her hero, Matthew Pryar (Eton and Oxford), contributes some British one-upmanship to the stock drama of poet and pedant. He finds that all is alien corn on the Cobb campus, is daunted to learn that the faculty does not drink and dines on unspiced food at 6:30 p.m. Pryar is one among seven visiting fellows. Each of them is a distinguished specialist in some recondite field, or rather is a monomaniac locked inside an ever-narrowing preoccupation -Andean Spiolus, patristic hagiography among the Slavs, Emily Dickinson or whatever. These learned freaks (the Slavonic specialist is a midget...
...Lord's Prayer is not intended for public use. St. Matthew's instructions were to enter thy closet, shut the door, and pray to thy Father in secret. It is not a group project...
Stendhal has taught three courses this year in the History and Philosophy of Religion, sponsored jointly by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and by the Divinity School. He taught two pro-seminars in New Testament Exegesis, as well as New Testament 123 on the Gospel of Matthew. Stendhal has also sponsored graduate reading and research in New Testament Studies...
...Sweetness and light" was not the best of phrases even in Victorian times. Besides, Matthew Arnold had borrowed it from Jonathan Swift. But the eminent Victorian poet-critic's oft-quoted formula for mental harmony has clung to his reputation like a sugary burr. Successive generations of collegians, coming upon it in more modern times, have turned away, convinced that Arnold's comments on the world are about as relevant to the tough-minded 20th century as those, say, of Harriet Beecher Stowe...