Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believes that if Christianity is to mean anything to man today, it must strive to narrow the gulf between the "silent suffering" in underdeveloped lands and the affluence of "Technocratic, sophisticated civilization." He expressed the hope that "those who may not understand my words may be touched by my decision." Besides, he quipped, "I don't think that being a cardinal is a hindrance to doing good...
...needn't have ribaldry's taint Or strive to make everyone faint...
...great universities is (and should be) the scholar-teacher, the man who can contribute to his field as well as communicate knowledge of that field to others. It is obviously difficult to populate a majority of any faculty with such ideal professors. But both Yale and Harvard continue to strive to that end and, in my view, with approximately the same degree of success...
Somehow, says Foreign Minister Abba Eban, the Arabs will have to meet Israel at the conference table to negotiate a formal peace. "Peace itself contains the solution of other issues," says Eban. "If there is peace, then we shall all strive to ensure that those who are now refugees become the productive citizens of sovereign states...
Some pavilions strive solely for immediate effect. In the style of the ancient sorcerers, the Kaleidoscope pavilion does it all with mirrors. To the accompaniment of mind-bending, discothquè-loud cacophony, reflections of colors burst and bleed like paint blended in a mixer; flowers open in the sun, firecrackers explode, seagulls turn red against a green sky. A violent visual punhouse, Kaleidoscope is the medium, the message and the massage. It is probably as near as most viewers will get to a psychedelic trip; for most, it will be close enough for discomfort...