Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the reality of secularization. "The human mind has exegeted God away out of the open questions of existence, and man in growing up has more and more chased the various gods out of their positions of control of human affairs. Mankind will not go back to the Old Testament for governing principles of how the world was made, but we will go on to trace its physical mysteries with X rays and microscopes. The world in which we live is forever without a God who plays the role of the continuous and sovereign Controller of mankind, without whom...
...quite all. Two million commuters, we suppose, are never precisely absorbed. They leave their smoke--some non-vital essence imported from Tea-neck or Great Neck. The commuters, with their tired, tidal restlessness never know New York beyond the Newark bus or Long Island Railroad schedules. They scurry, a testament to the fact that New York is the most take-it-or-leave-it city in the world...
Unfortunately this reviewer cannot convey to you how extraordinarily well-written and alive Sartre's prose in The Words is. The book is the testament of a persevering genius, a writer who labors over his words until they reflect precisely his thoughts, which were clear before he began the process of writing. Now he has turned to the subject he cares most about--himself. The vitality and art with which he speaks of his life are extraordinary
...CRIMSON bears diurnal testament to the fact that you are "only college students playing Newspaper." We who work at the Loeb, however, are not, as Mr. Brackman suggests, "playing Entertainment...
...might "fittingly stand at the gates of Paradise." All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery's portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of immortality. The double doors, 16 ft. by 9 ft., cast of bronze and overlaid with gold, held ten panels that told Old Testament tales in such grace ful relief that the metal seemed brushed on like oils...