Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head-to-head competition with John F. Kennedy '40, Senator from Massachusetts, Nixon came out ahead in 13 of the 16 cities. Rockefeller managed only a split with the front-running Democratic candidate...
...major Socialist split had been averted, but the discord, which was there for all to see, would make it easier for Kishi to sell the public on his proposed new pact with the U.S.; in fact, according to the pollsters, a surprising 63% of the people were now in favor of his treaty proposals...
...thoughts." Such a view implies a fairly elitist view of knowledge and philosophy; but there is agreement by both Demos and Dawson that the student who is qualified to come to Harvard is able, in Demos's phrase, to have "his religion buffeted by the winds of reason." The split between classroom exposition and classroom conversion is only one factor contributing to the College relativism. Demos says that in Harvard's case "Veritas means that we are committed to nothing." Yet even those members of the University who are "committed men," who, like Demos, do believe, often see the critical...
...course on the New Testament, Humanities 124, he is concerned with showing the influence of Biblical "categories of thought." He states that "a university is for understanding. Our concern is not to say whether you should believe or not believe." Buttrick thus provides another example of the split that exists in the University teacher who is a committed man--the instructor who does believe and is convinced that his belief is one which is tremendously meaningful, but who must demur from advocating...
...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicitly, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in nonfaith, a paradoxical commitment to noncommitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century.PAUL TILLICH 'Scholarship as Ultimate Concern...