Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour or so a day according to his methods, he says, anyone may transcend "the gross state of thought" to find deeper wisdom. What is more, the Maharishi offers to bring the blessings of wisdom to the faithful "without their having to renounce their way of life"-a comfortable tenet rarely offered by holy men or prophets...
...water. Only in the past five have they successfully built them. For although plastic and glass designs were put together by Constructivist Naum Gabo and the Bauhaus' Laszlo Moholy-Nagy back in the 1920s, their results amounted to little more than experiments, designed to illustrate the constructivist tenet that space plays as vital a role in sculpture as mass. It remained for a myriad of advanced synthetics and plastics to make see-through sculpture a burgeoning art form in the 1960s (see color opposite...
...Guilty beyond reasonable doubt." That cornerstone tenet of U.S. criminal justice has safeguarded many an innocent man-but rarely an innocent boy. In most states, whether a child is adjudged delinquent depends on the way the "preponderance of evidence" strikes the judge handling the case. In other words, if the child seems slightly more guilty than not, the judge can order him sent to a training school. The reason : juvenile courts were originally conceived as places where children would be helped, not punished. But the practice has not lived up to the theory. Now, in the wake...
...that Government has got into a situation. It's another to keep repeating it all your life. In an ideal society, I'd be against compulsory arbitration; yet I think people are a bore who create a theology around private enterprise." It has been a firm conservative tenet that the state must be kept as limited as possible. Yet that belief has run smack into the conservative demand to fight the cold war as vigorously as possible. "Today, as never before," concedes Buckley, "the state is the necessary instrument of our proximate deliverance...
Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher, Charles F. Parham, Pentecostalism asserts as its basic tenet the need for baptism by the Holy Spirit, the supreme manifestation of which is glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. Dissatisfied with the institutionalized quality of Methodist worship and spirituality, Parham took as his inspiration the message of Acts 2: 1-4, which tells how, as the disciples assembled on Pentecost, "there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Hoping to receive the spirit...