Word: owen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Augustine, "is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see." Faith defies proof; science demands it. If new information should require modification of the Big Bang theory, that modification could be accomplished without the entire temple of knowledge collapsing. Observes Harvard University Historian-Astronomer Owen Gingerich: "Genesis is not a book of science. It is accidental if some things agree in detail. I believe the heavens declare the glory of God only to people who've made a religious commitment...
...NOTEBOOK: Coach Bill Cleary adjusted his lineup last night to account for the absence of the Hughes Brothers. Cleary called up freshman right winger Owen Cote from the J.V. and moved freshman Scott Powers back to defense...
...were ready to go a long time ago. Without a printer, we didn't feel the need to hurry," Owen Andrews '79, the magazine's poetry editor, said. He added that Wellesley Press Inc., the old printer, "didn't want to do business with us any longer...
Surprisingly, the West has proved one of Smith's more effective opponents, though it has done little to encourage a peaceful settlement of the Rhodesian problem. For example, the U.S. currently backs an Anglo-American plan pieced together by U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen. The plan marks an attempt by the British to atone for their weak-willed opposition to Smith's "colonial rebellion," and by the U.S. to undo the effects of the Nixon administration's "tilt" toward the apartheid states in the early '70s. Unfortunately, it calls for the participation of Nkomo...
...novel were not difficult enough, Larry McMurtry narrates his new Hollywood story in three first-person voices. In Book 1, Joe Percy, a sixtyish screenwriter and seducer of bored young Bel Air wives, speaks of his affection for Director Jill Peel. Book 2 collects the machismo sputterings of Producer Owen Oarson, who moves in as Jill's great physical love. Book 3 is written in Jill's voice-a cool meditation on her life, her men, and their inscrutable ways...