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If asked to name the most influential work of modern Christian thought, older Protestant divines might point to Karl Barth's powerful commentary on The Epistle to the Romans or Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. Younger ministers, on the other hand, would be far more likely to cite...
Sir: I presume you don't claim originality for those guys and dolls, who do not even have a word for it. The Greeks had a word-orgy. So did the Romans-bacchanalia. Even the underdeveloped Brazilians have a cute word-suruba. In the '30s, I took part...
(4 of 10) Macedonians and Romans, won fame for their century-and-a-half stand against Rome in a phrase that has come down through the ages: "Numquid de Dacis audisti?" (What have you heard of the Daci?).
To name several who come immediately to mind from the first term: Bob Caro, general assignment reporter for Newsday, concentrated much of his effort and classes in the English department on such trade-related subjects as "The Romans in America"; Ralph Hancox, editor of the Peterborough, Ontario, Examiner, devoted most...
Long before the birth of Christ, Dec. 25 was celebrated in pagan societies as the day on which the sun began its yearly rebirth (astronomically they were only three days off). Peasants in northern Europe decorated their homes with evergreens as a tribute to nature's victory over the...