Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when lovers find in each other only a projection of themselves. Similarly, I-It appears in religion, as when man uses God merely for his peace of mind, or abstracts Him in complicated logical systems, or regards Him as so large and overpowering that He is out of reach. Buber refuses to see God as the "wholly Other" of Swiss Theologian Karl Barth or the "Mysterium Tremendum" of German Theologian Rudolph Otto. "Of course God is the 'wholly Other,' " Buber writes, "but He is also the wholly Same, the wholly Present. Of course He is the Mysterium Tremendum...
...faith, says Buber, must' walk the narrow ridge, "avoiding the abyss of self-affirmation on the one hand and self-denial on the other." Author Friedman cites a Hasidic saying: "Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pockei are to be the words: 'For my sake the world was created,' and in his left: 'I am dust and ashes...
...drop in the number of polio cases among the 7,000,000 children who were vaccinated. It had this success despite distribution snafus and faulty vaccine batches. In 1956 the vaccine will be safer and, doctors hope, at least 80% effective in preventing paralytic polio. How will it reach the children...
...Captain Michales gnashed his teeth." With this flat opening sentence, Greek Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis introduces his third memorable novel to reach U.S. readers in as many years. A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek. In The Greek Passion, the peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching...
...City School Board Spokesman Masami Tsujita defended the board's disputed decision not to employ teachers under 5 ft. tall: "There are many difficulties involving teachers less than 5 ft. ... In outdoor activities it is difficult to locate her; in the classroom she will not be able to reach the top of the blackboard...