Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONSTANT confusion--most due to simple staff errors--in the scheduling of the campaign was another sore spot. "Somebody thought it took two hours (instead of half an hour) to drive to Fond du Lac," was the explanation for one such mistake. "Must be the same person who thought it took two hours to fly there," a reporter commented...
Methodist Theologian Van Harvey suggests that the church should not be "a place where men come to be more pious. The church is a place of edification, where one comes to learn to be an honest-to-God person living in dialogue with others." Despite all the yearning for spirituality that may exist in the average American church, it is questionable how many churchgoers can and do live up to this ideal. The stratified irrelevance of the established parish, whether Catholic or Protestant, is a major reason for the growth of what Episcopal Chaplain Malcolm Boyd has dubbed "the underground...
...tape of Kidwell had not been formally introduced as evidence, instead was shown to the jury to back up the district attorney's decision to reduce the charge. Moreover, Judge Gardner was well aware that higher courts have rarely allowed any testimony related to statements made by a person undergoing a lie-detector test or under truth drugs or hypnosis. Still, Gardner was interested...
...forecasts, stations are erecting radar towers and hiring meteorologists who are called "Dr." and give their reports from "Weather Central" - a far corner in the studio. No matter that in many cities the U.S. Weather Bureau offers a recorded telephone service which gives all the weather a person wants or needs to know in 40 seconds or less...
...this kind. The language barrier, he notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something, or someone, having to do with the village, which is one reason the village is so important in Vietnamese...