Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scheduled-airline flying in the U.S. is 6.4 times safer than personal driving; a person would have to travel 263 million miles in a plane, but only 41 million miles in a car, before he ran an odds-on chance of being killed. More people die by falling off ladders than by crashing in airliners. Life insurance is no more expensive for today's pilots than it is for bookkeepers; in a year, only one commercial pilot out of 1,000 dies in a plane. And the record is steadily improving; one accident occurred in every 85,000 hours...
...Department of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University, explained that the signers are only a fraction of the association's 3,374 members. "Since it is a policy of the Association not to take a stand or conduct a vote on political questions," wrote De Bary, "no person or group can claim to represent the membership. Signers of the statement must have been unaware such a construction would be put upon it by those presenting it to the Times...
...explains. "They can follow it, and at a certain point I disappear. Then they have to make a decision, even if it's only to get the hell out of there. No one can walk past a tableau; he has to walk into it. And if one person ends up being better, then I'm completely vindicated...
...Even clergymen seem to be uncertain. "I'm confused as to what God is," says no less a person than Francis B. Sayre, the Episcopal dean of Washington's National Cathedral, "but so is the rest of America." Says Marty's colleague at the Chicago Divinity School, the Rev. Nathan Scott, who is also rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Hyde Park: "I look out at the faces of my people, and I'm not sure what meaning these words, gestures and rituals have for them...
...Israel was so utterly beyond human comprehension that devout Jews neither uttered nor wrote his sacred name.* At the same time, Judaism has a unique sense of God's personal presence. Scripture records that he walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam, spoke familiarly on Mount Sinai with Moses, expressed an almost human anger and joy. Christianity added an even more mystifying dimension to the belief that the infinitely distant was infinitely near: the doctrine that God came down to earth in the person of a Jewish carpenter named Jesus, who died at Jerusalem around...