Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frosty reception from clergymen and social workers caused the plan to fall through. In particular, most social workers felt that law students could not counsel families whose problems were still non-legal. "Students would be," they claim, "in the way of those who know what...
...Africa, traveling in pairs to interview students in the capital city of their country. (Moll left the day before yesterday.) The two ASPAU admissions officers, plus one representative from the Agency for International Development, sit on a board with about a dozen African government officials and educators of the particular nation. This board interviews two or three times as many applicants as there are places available and makes recommendations to the final selection committee in America...
...virtues, this particular taming is sometimes more shrewd than Shrew. The writers have edited Shakespeare's speeches, transposed lines, and improvised bits of business for the Burtons that never took place in the Globe's wooden O. Despite such wild tampering, most of the words and-more important -all of the spirit of the play have been maintained. To make sure that the viewer's eye never rests long enough to get restive, Zeffirelli builds the production against a background of burnt sienna, vermilion and viridian-the splashiest colors of the Renaissance palette. He also keeps Taylor...
...institute seeks to stimulate creative Christian thinking on urban problems through weekend seminars that are open to outsiders. The seminars are larded with the institute's particular jargon-mind-set and imaginal education are favorite words-and faculty members rely on shock tactics to make listeners aware of the church's crisis situation. "When are you going to stop prettying up the heroes of the church so that people will know what kind of men they were?" demanded Lay Faculty Member Joe Pierce at one seminar. "Martin Luther? He was three sheets to the wind on German beer...
...persistent observer of the human condition. He examines the Eden that is Sweden and sees-much as Bruegel once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference to life. Her doctor insists that her inactivity is simply another...