Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notion that by the aid of the upshot of Christ's life and the 1,800 years (the consequences) they have become acquainted with the answer to the problem. By degrees, as this came to be accounted wisdom, all pith and vigor was distilled out of Christianity, the tension of the paradox was relaxed, one became a Christian without noticing it. ... What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would be most embittered by if one were contemporary with it. ... Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware...
...religious ministrations that I could confidently use to ease the emotional tension of the Protestant wounded. The priest, on the other hand, administered the appropriate rite to all Catholic wounded. His religious rites were taken so seriously, by himself and by the Catholics around him, that he would be called out of his 'sack' at night when wounded were brought into the sick...
Department of government have always been focal points for tension and fluidity within academic institutions. The genuine need for alertness to new trends, the constant demand for viewpoints that are tuned to the minute have made this field one of the most difficult to teach and administer. A government department, as a unit, must never cease its labors lest it fall behind its dynamic subject. At Harvard, not only the subject matter but the tremendous numbers of new concentrators have strained the ingenuity of members of the department...
There are twelve men now teaching government under permanent appointments. One of these men is a Dean, occupied with administrative duties that leave little time for academic work. Two more are nearing retirement and thus are most justifiably shedding much of the tension and responsibility accumulated over long and distinguished careers. A fourth teaches only at the graduate level, while still another professor will be unable to return from Washington for another year. The recent announcement of Professor Friedrich's intended return to work with the government was balanced by Dean Hanford's resumption of teaching chores next fall...
...such statements boosted the incident toward Sarajevo-like proportions, Clerk Braunspiegel, wild-haired and sad-eyed, a staunch middle-of-the-roader, sought to ease the tension. Mused he: "We should give in a little, Russia should give in a little . . . I don't know...