Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Christian teaching is indeed compatible with the assumption that there are extra-earthly rational creatures similar to human beings," he writes in the Düsseldorf daily, Rheinische Post. "The supreme world aim is the glorification of God through rational beings . . . Should we assume there to be nothing but deserts...
Safe, Safer? The more the authorities congratulated themselves on the new tests, the more (by implication, at least) did they condemn the old. PHS's Dr. James Shannon said that the revisions provide "more frequent and sensitive testing on what we now believe to be a more rational basis...
When Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban take over from their dancing colleagues, the play shows little noticeable improvement. Certainly, few actors could appear rational in a dialogue such as the serious conversation about atheism which they must carry on in a sewer, but it would hardly be excessive to ask...
Against our fears, I oppose a great hope. The physical discoveries, which have shaken the spiritual faith of some men, are also shaking the philosophic foundations of materialism. I have noticed a new, extremely encouraging disposition on the part of some leading nonreligious scientists. They are beginning to acknowledge that...
ALFRED MANESSIER, 43, sometime architect from Picardy, an abstractionist (he calls his painting "supra-rational") who uses colors that glow like Rouault's. Like Rouault, Manessier underwent a religious crisis which he resolved in a brief retreat to a Trappist monastery. Manessier's subsequent work has often had...