Word: ponderance
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...another. Since his forte is satire, he did not fail to convey the somewhat frightening prospect of man's new capability to store a mass of information and, on signal, send it anywhere in the world. His drawing, both asuming and sobering, is one to study and ponder...
...even produce evidence," on the two vital realities of man's being, his free will and his consciousness. Thus those "who follow science blindly come to a barrier beyond which they cannot see." They end "where they began, except that the framework, the background, against which they ponder is far more elaborate, far more probable than was the evidence when an ancient shepherd guided his flock toward the setting sun and wondered why he was there and where he was going...
...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...