Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Why the odd-shaped, minuscule head on a figure that is otherwise so real? "Do people today find it odd that the figures in Chartres have bodies made of little more than straight sticks?" he asks. "Michelangelo's heads would sometimes go ten or more times into his bodies...
Adventure & Achievement. The question of Nobelity aside, Shanti Andia makes clear its author's standing as one of the top men of modern Spanish letters and also explains why Hemingway calls himself Baroja's disciple. In this novel the hero, Shanti, is a Basque sea captain who tells...
Respondents' attitudes about the attributes of God reflect this same refusal to commit oneself to a consistent system of beliefs. Thus, while most respondents (63 per cent) believed that God is all-powerful, few (40 per cent) felt that God would alter the natural course of events to answer a...
Since in all the various areas of learning--sociology, psychology, the sciences, history, philosophy, even business administration--ultimate question about existence are involved, these studies represent practical actualizations of a vast and embracing spiritual realm. In the Tillichian transcendental realm there can be no divorce of preaching and pedagogy; each...
The whole business apparently began from a widespread feeling that the freshman year at Harvard is not all that it might be, at least as heretofore constituted. This feeling manifested itself in the discussions of a number of Faculty committees, and doubtless, too, in many formal exchanges. As Dean Bundy...