Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pleased last week with the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers, Rabbi Brickner was even more pleased that Cleveland's Religious Education Fellowship will shortly reciprocate and start an Institute on Christianity for Jews. Says he: "Many Christians think of Judaism as lurking behind a silken veil . . . Judaism...
But, asked Frankfurter, "what rational line can be drawn short of searching as many rooms as arresting officers may deem appropriate . . .?
Eliot does not believe that the world can succeed in forming a nonChristian, "rational" civilization-though it is now trying to. Says he: "The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through...
"The thorniest problem," gloomily concluded the report. "An untenable situation if both men and cattle continue to increase . . . Rational but brutal intervention [i.e., killing the cows] would be liable to cause violent reactions . . . would wound the Africans in their deepest susceptibilities."
In a rational society there is only one forgivable reason for a woman cutting her hair. This is, if it will improve her looks. That every day some women war their looks deliberately, by cutting off their hair shows two things: Either they don't understand the relation between their...