Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern lacrosse teams have a far easier time than their Indian predecessors. The braves played on a field with no boundaries, and the goals were set anywhere from 500 yards to a half-mile apart. The present field is only 110 yards long and 60 yards wide, divided at midfield...
...millions, of course, there is no real problem. Baptism and church membership are the external criteria of faith, and a true follower of Jesus is one who keeps his beliefs free from heresy and tries to live a decent, upright, moral life. Yet to the most thoughtful spokesmen of modern Christianity, these criteria are not only minimal, they are secondary and even somewhat irrelevant. Instead, they argue that faith is not an intellectual assent to a series of dogmatic propositions but a commitment of one's entire being; ethical concern is directed not primarily toward...
...faith commitment of the Christian also implies the need for allegiance to a church-or at least to some kind of community of faith. Theoretically, it may be possible for a Christian to survive without any institutional identity-but the majority of modern theologians would agree that to be "a man for others" there must be others to be with, and that faith is sustained by communal structure. Churchmen would also argue that there is nothing obsolete about the basic necessity for worship and prayer. "Liturgy must be an expression of something that is happening in the community," says...
...Coghill dramatized his 1951 edition of the Tales to celebrate the 650th anniversary of Oxford's Exeter College; then a record company commissioned some music from Composers Richard Hill and John Hawkins to go along with a recorded version. The Hill-Hawkins blend of medieval piety and modern pop seemed just right; so the project was expanded into its present musical-comedy form...
...spokesman and arbitrator of musical disagreements Violinist Bernard Eichen, 36, the newest member of the group with only one year's tenure, is a nonstop quipster who gave his first recital at age nine and joined Toscanini's NBC Symphony at 19. Violist John Graham, 31, a modern-music enthusiast and the quiet intellectual of the group, plans all of its programs. Cellist Bruce Rogers, 36, a missionary's son who was raised in Kenya, provides a solid foundation for the quartet as much with his steady, serious personality as with his cello...