Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Peking's suffering subjects, special torments are visited on those who live in Red China's own Wild West, the twice-Texas-sized, rugged but rich Sinkiang province. On one side it abuts Russian Kazakhstan, on the other Tibet, to which it is linked by the disputed...
The Gospel does not tell how many Wise Men there were; according to St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine there were twelve, but tradition soon narrowed them to three-presumably because of the three gifts they brought. As far back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the...
"Not Our Business." "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity of function or responsibility," said Eisenhower. "This thing has, for very great denominations, a religious meaning ... I have no quarrel with them, as a matter of fact this being largely...
The difficulty in establishing a literary school is that someone is always cutting class. Novelist Nathalie Sarraute, dean of women of the French school known as the New Realist, inveighs against psychological novels, yet psychologizes in her own works. Her cofounder, Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, is an object worshiper who...
The problems in these countries, from Iran through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India, are of widely differing character. It is totally unrealistic to suppose that the brief stop of the President and 100 accompanying reporters is going to produce any dramatic change in the relations of these countries and the...