Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that convenes in January to appropriate $1 billion for the Development Loan Fund instead of this year's $700 million. Atop that, Dillon will urge Congress to okay big increases in U.S. commitments to the World Bank and the currency-stabilizing International Monetary Fund. "The most important economic question facing the U.S.," says Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker who served four years (1953-57) as Ambassador to France, "is whether the less developed countries will choose the Communist system or the Western system in their struggle against poverty. The verdict will depend largely on how much the industrialized...
...when our western culture has penetrated all the world, that culture has disintegrated. The absolutes on which people base their lives are no longer those provided by Christian faith; this at the same time that our scientific culture has become the property of all nations. Thus emerges the general question with which the lectures are to deal: what is the relation of Christianity to this world civilization? The remainder of this first lecture had as its stated purpose an analysis of the new world civilization itself...
...world civilization will inevitably raise in eastern lands the question: What is the destiny of man?--and therefore, What are the absolutes on which life is to be based? The coming of Christ was the coming of an absolute, which men must accept, or find another. The new world civilization must eventually center itself around Christ or Antichrist. And interpreting from the New Testament, there is hope that Christ will be the center. Pat Henry...
Curley's wit raises a question that still divides the faculty of the institution he so enjoyed baiting. Was he the colorful old rogue that he has been made lately, or did he do Boston irreparable harm? In his old age he certainly tried to give credence to the former view. Though he grouched about Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From...
...Cooperation is the necessary starting point, but it cannot be considered the goal," Newbigin continued. The Christian unity, the "binding in Christ," makes manifest a total commitment that makes it impossible to evade the question of full Church unity throughout the world. Newbigin strongly asserted the imminence of the problem and the importance of its solution. "The issue of Church unity," Newbigin concluded, "must be treated as an issue not for tomorrow, but for today...