Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frontiersy eagerness to get U.S. Protestants moving again. In Second Chance for American Protestants (Harper & Row; $3.50), he argues that the churches are being "displaced" from their comfortable positions of influence in the U.S.; in an increasingly religionless world Christians are becoming once again, in the Biblical phrase, "strangers and exiles." This can be well and good, says Marty. The beliefs of Protestant churches have, in the U.S., formed the basis for a "consensus religion," which now has lost its impact: it is like faded wallpaper, visible everywhere but hardly noticed. Change is needed for the church to become once...
...history of the Harvard Press to have sold more than 50,000 copies. Outside of Cambridge it is still read. At Harvard it has unobtrusively become the basis for discussion of college curriculum on both the theoretical and working levels. By the weight of its influence the colorless phrase General Education has been established as the slogan under which some of the most pressing issues of college policy are examined...
General Education has thus become a catch phrase for that part of the Harvard curriculum which is "collegiate," which does not even attempt to imitate the comprehensive standards of specialized study. On the working level it concerns itself with the question of what courses in the Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social sciences Harvard undergraduates should be required to take in addition to their course for concentration. On the theoretical level it is concerned with the ancient and lofty question of the aims and meaning of a college education...
...reminiscence that does not always fall short of preposterousness. If a theme connects them all, it is that soothing time, mingled freely with girls and beer, has left us satiated after many trials. If plays had weaknesses, the weaknesses were trivial, and nicely balanced by (in 327's favorite phrase) a "general excellence." If reading periods annoyed us, we cancelled them afterwards by sitting on the river bank. The Master was decent, the tutors friendly, and the Senior Tutor, to cap the year's outbreaks of Schwaermerei, showed himself a character in his usual performance as the lewd...
False Sentimentality. To use a phrase from current teenage slang, Algren has gone ape, real ape. The pity of all this is that the wheedling, folksy tone of the huckster ("I've learned a few tricks of the trade myself, such as adding an 's' when you want to show there is more than one of something") comes from the mouth of a man who once had a real gold watch to sell and not a brass turnip...