Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their records. Now John has received some expert support. Richard Cardinal Gushing, 71, preached in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral: "The Beatles are better known than Christianity throughout the world." His point: Missions must be strengthened in a world in which Christians are outnumbered. Was that what John meant all along...
...Study Meant Damage. It is not surprising that the Bible de Jérusalem has become something of a standard for modern translations: scholars of all faiths freely acknowledge that L'Ecole Biblique is one of the world's most authoritative centers for scriptural study. The school was founded in 1890 by French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, who was a pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars...
...least as plausible as Warhol's presenting a commercial container." Rickey's difference, as the current exhibition of 75 of his works in Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art demonstrates, lies in subordinating the precision bearing to the pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that is carefully designed to be useless echoes the whimper or many a cog: 'What's the use?" Perhaps Rickey...
Only in the rare instances when something works do we get an idea of what Cabaret was meant to be. Joel Gray, as the master of ceremonies, does a brilliant love song with a female gorilla, titled "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes." The obvious parallel to Miss Lenya's relationship with Mr. Gilford gives the song a relevance all the other cabaret numbers lack. A song of popular unrest, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," is later twisted into a grotesque Nazi rallying cry, and the meaning is again clear...
Even those professors or university heads who want earnestly to "save something from the wreck of general and liberal education in our universities" are "functionaries of the very system which general education is meant to counteract," he says...