Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. Dusk came. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land...
While the Williams meeting was in progress, the World Council of Churches met in Sydney, Australia, to weigh a similar subject: Christianity's plans and strategy for Southeast Asia. In the night sky, during the meeting, big searchlights formed a luminous cross, but the council's mood was less glowing. A note almost of supplication toward Asians and of stern self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations...
...best of times, merchantmen usually work ten years or more to pay off their owners' mortgages. Thinking of his heavily mortgaged fleet, Niarchos claims he is still a long way from blue water. Says he jokingly: "All we really own is the air between the funnel and the sky...
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...anti-intellectual? Father Raymond-Leopold Bruckberger, a vigorously pro-American French Dominican and author of the perceptive One Sky to Share, answers no. The fact is, says he in the current Harper's Magazine, the U.S. is not so much anti-intellectual as the intellectual is anti-U.S. But Father Bruckberger is not one to be satisfied with mere accusation. His chief point is a challenge as the world needs America's example to follow, so America needs its intellectuals to explain what America is all about...