Word: ponder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delivered." More than 900 clergymen and students gathered last week at Harvard Divinity School to ponder the new morality and its significance for the church. Inevitably the speakers reached no definitive conclusions, but they generally agreed that in some respects the new morality is a healthy advance, as a genuine effort to take literally St. Paul's teachings that through Christ "we are delivered from the law." "Lists of cans and cannots are meaningless," said Princeton's Paul Ramsey. Yale's Protestant chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, similarly approved the new morality's concept...
...Brooklyn Museum is readying an acre for Karp's relics, to be called the Frieda Schiff Warburg Memorial Sculpture Garden. Due to be opened next year, the sanctuary will have antique lampposts lighting the paths, and wistful wanderers will be able to sit on filigree benches and ponder the pilasters of the past. It is just possible that before the project is completed it may include a machine-tooled, I-beam mullion from the first of the glass-and-steel box buildings acetylene-torched out of existence...
...digits that authorize Bond to kill. In Britain, where the Bond market will reach $14 million this year, promoters have lined up 20 licensed manufacturers for shoes, vodka and golf equipment, are now negotiating with one of London's largest tailors. In Italy, while philosophers ponder the meaning of Bond as the modern hero, the manufacturers are trying to grab licenses for 007 products...
...break the impasse, the President named Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor and Oregon Senator Wayne Morse as members of a panel to recommend settlement terms within 42 hours. With that, things began to happen. The National Labor Relations Board, which normally takes weeks to ponder such moves, got federal courts in New York and Baltimore to order the strikers back to work. The union at first ignored the injunctions, but at week's end "Teddy" Gleason, perhaps noting the congressional clamor for a law to forbid another such walkout, ordered his men back to their...
...must be remembered that medical schools are faced with a large number of superior people. If all work and no play really does foster an aphasic dullness, students might do well to ponder the words of one medical school dean who remarked, "The unexciting person will definitely have a more difficult time getting admitted in the coming years." On the other hand, for those students at the other polar extreme, there is very little play in medical school. The moral, Neither an ant nor a grasshopper...