Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disciples-except, he said, for his own sons Markus, a professor at Pittsburgh Theology Seminary, and Christoph, a Biblical scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany-and he often told students: "Don't repeat what I have said. Learn to think for yourselves." He tried firmly to shun theological fashion, and his constant goal was to bring men back to the authenticity of God's word. Today, Barth's endless, old-fashioned commentary on this message may appear to be an obstacle to that goal. Tomorrow, it may well be read afresh as a vivid encounter...
Since the hotel faces inward, it seems to shun its neighborhood. "You have to think of the hotel as a ship. The blank outside walls are only to protect the inside," says Legorreta. For extra privacy, the guest rooms are far from the hustle of the lobby, convention rooms, three restaurants and seven bars...
...cries out for greatness in the White House. The trouble is not only that so many talented Americans shun politics, but also that no sort of accomplishment in other fields necessarily qualifies a man for the extraordinary demands of the presidency. Solemn reformers will doubtless one day propose a special Presidential Academy with a faculty of hundreds. Enrollment would be for a decade, the curriculum immense and open-ended. With his power over nuclear war or peace, the American President can do no less than strive to be the world's most rational man; a philosophy degree might help...
...anxieties of the French students are fed by the fact that, unlike their counterparts in the U.S., they face a vocational future that is highly uncertain. French business tends to shun the liberal-arts graduate as a source of executive talent, much prefers youths with technical training. Thus some of the nation's brightest, most thoughtful youths are most affected by the unpredictability of the forces for change. "France is in the midst of a transition from old ways to new," notes Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, "and many of the young people don't know where they are going...
...mere sideswipe. Behind the article is an as yet unexplored theory which holds that among the ghetto's natural entrepreneurs--the numbers runners, small money-lenders, pool room owners--might be the best place to look for leadership. The article is more imaginative than Jenkins', but both shun cant to look for power...