Word: modern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even before Mao Tse-tung unleashed the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Red China had managed to isolate itself from most of the world. The weird rampages of the Red Guards made the alienation virtually complete. As no other major nation in modern times, Red China stands alone, with other Communist countries possibly even more appalled by its actions than anyone else...
...dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance entertains, but it makes Congreve's quiet thrust at meaning pointless. I would have thought the one thing that a repertory company might have learned from modern drama is to take comedy just a little seriously...
...still want to believe in something worthy of belief, but that our intellectual climate is be- coming one of "self-destructive unbelief." He suggested that men could justifiably reject past formulations of faith, but he feared the spread of the belief that the Christian faith has no relevance to modern culture...
Nevertheless, Pusey's picture of the modern Church was far from hopeless. He was encouraged particularly by the decline of denominationalism and noted that "Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic are experiencing a fresh sense of mutual need; and members of all these groups are developing a wholly new and constructive attitude toward the Jewish faith...
...deficit may reach $80,000 this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere of Duke Ellington's In the Beginning...