Word: multiform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprise that brings many unfamiliar encounters; it can profoundly disturb the cleric who comes to it without a theology. For such men, contemporary theologians are seeking to develop a new understanding of the central relationships of human life, and in the process are redefining man, the world and the Multiform Presence that most of them are still willing to call...
...indication of the exceptional good sense of Harvard men and women. But who can tell? Nevertheless, looking back on the past months, I can affirm in making another report, as my predecessors have done many times before, despite an increase in anxiety and unease, through another year the multiform basic work of the University went strongly ahead. Also, as is characteristic of any lively institution, questioning and re-examination of objectives and procedures went on, accelerated by events within and without the University...
...irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection for "this huge, embarrassing figure" of De Gaulle by noting that the general himself is just a "vast, multiform and moving contradiction...
...science). Descendants of the naturalists and students of natural history, ethologists, such as Lorenz and Tinbergen, demand observation of behavior unchanneled by experimental hypotheses: "Ethologists believe that all facts on behavior must be acquired before any hypotheses are formulated. They have come to this conclusion because behavior is so multiform that a wealth of evidence can always be compiled in support of any theory, no matter how capriciously constructed." (E.H. Hess, "Ethology: An Approach toward the complete analysis of behavior," New Directions in Psychology; New York, 1962.) One need not then stamp off in a scientific rage on reading...
This new function of a large university, Pusey maintained, is also an advantage to the undergraduate body. "If the college now has something special to say to undergraduates," he declared, "we are confident this is owed in large measure to its setting in the midst of a multiform dynamic University with a vital outreach into the world...