Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Further, while "antiseptic and astringent criticism of the form of Christian affirmation" leads to clarification, it also brings about a "humorless constriction of the very terms it brings under analysis." In short, said Sittler, the context of confirmation is the "massive and organic story of man--in his analysis and anguish, his vision and his dread, his lusts, longings, loves, and loneliness...
Swinging a Pickax. Last year, with the Leeds area short of several hundred teachers, Educator Taylor hit on the sound idea that people in their 30s and 40s might like to switch careers. He aimed at restless mothers of teen-aged children, at bright older men with dull jobs who "feel quite desperate because their lives are being wasted." Britain's Ministry of Education pooh-poohed the idea, but Taylor persisted with a plan to set up a two-year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor...
...were debating the conditions of the gift: 1) a $3,000.000 addition to the museum, in the form of an Oriental wing, designed to meet Brundage's specifications, and 2) a Brundage-approved curator and staff for the collection. If the price is steep, the prize is nothing short of fabulous. Best of the lot are Brundage's bronzes, dating back 30 centuries to the almost mythical Shang-Yin dynasty in China. Among the finest is the "Holy Man" or Lohan (opposite), whose peaceful humility especially delights the fighting autocrat who bought...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). After an air crash, three men and three women are washed ashore on a desert island. Nothing short of a thermonuclear bomb could upset that sort of paradise-but that is precisely what happens...
...varsity's lead was quickly erased, however, when B.C.'s captain Ed Smith batted in a short pass a minute later. Jack Cusack put the Eagles ahead to stay, breezing past the Crimson defense to score on Henderson...