Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raising questions concerning the reliability and authority of God's word." Despite White's victory, the messengers thwarted other conservative hopes. In the first Statement of Faith since 1925, the convention roared approval of a paragraph supporting academic freedom in Baptist schools, approved another phrase speaking of the church as embracing "all of the redeemed of all ages," which conservatives considered too ecumenical in nature. They shunned a resolution to censure the Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where Elliott had taught. The consensus was that the split was painful, and perhaps profoundly damaging. Said...
This is a pity. Despite an occasional ultra-rarefied phrase, Arnold was the most trenchant critic of his century-a fact which has inspired Professor Super's mammoth scholarly edition of all his scattered works. He was also a worldly, witty man whose comments most of the time could apply to the ills of our age as well as to those...
...visiting poetry professor at Oxford and (for 40 years) a tireless reformist inspector of the British school system. Critic Arnold had many a platform from which to praise past excellence and take potshots at John Bullish complacency. He had a gift for making a phrase stick. After Arnold so summed him up, Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley has indelibly remained "an ineffectual angel." His fellow Britons Arnold divided into three groups: "the Barbarians [aristocracy], the Populace and the Philistines," an epithet which for Arnold summed up all the sins of the muscular, muddleheaded, self-satisfied British middle class. He takes...
...requirements would certainly have convinced the founders of the African and Afro-American Association that a membership clause which excludes whites on the basis of race would have to be rejected by the HCUA and the Deans. Yet they sent Mr. Armah before the HCUA to proclaim that the phrase "Africans and Afro-Americans" means no whites allowed. If the membership clause is as discriminatory as Mr. Armah insists Harvard as a Massachusetts college, ought not to approve it. And the founders of the African and Afro-American Association should have known better to expect otherwise: no other Harvard organization...
...solid ground. It means just the reverse: It means a psychology particularly fragile, and into which the waters of metaphysical eroticism leak at every joint, a psychology all of whose assumptions and data must be reconsidered in wider connections and translated into other terms. It is, in short, a phrase of diffidence, and not of arrogance...