Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 16 years, has ground out 62 whodunits (mostly about Lawyer Perry Mason), landed in Manhattan after a visit to England, with an expert's explanation of Britain's low crime rate: "Respect for the law. Over here, it's kind of a game ... If you think you can get away with passing a red light, you will. The British don't look at it that...
Leggy Cinemactress Ava Gardner (The Great Sinner), whose first husband was Mickey Rooney and second was Artie Shaw, now felt up to the esthetic side of marriage. "I've grown up," said she. "I used to think books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...
Other enthusiasts have worked out the chances of getting hit by meteors. They think it might be well to clothe a space ship with a thin "meteor bumper...
Moist Pebble. Not all the society's concerns are mechanical. Lectures this winter will cover psychological and philosophical problems. B.I.S. members believe it is not too soon to think seriously about such matters - that the age of space flight is not far away. A speaker at one meeting asked a ringing question: "Looking out across immensity to the great suns and circling planets . . . can you believe that man is to spend all his days cooped and crawling on the surface of-this tiny -this moist pebble with its clinging film of air?" The members answered unanimously with resounding noes...
...according to Barth, "is He who according to Holy Scripture exists, lives, acts, makes Himself known to us in the work of His free love ..." But it is dangerous to think of God as nothing but unlimited power. "Perhaps you recall how, when Hitler used to speak about God, he called Him 'the Almighty.' . . . Holy Scripture never speaks of God's power, its manifestations and its victories, in separation from the concept of law." This law is to be found in God as Father-"the God who is in Himself love...