Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposing more religion courses, the Council stated that its "major concern is that religion be treated . . . in a reasonably thorough, systematic, and critical way." The group felt that courses should include anti-theistic as well as theistic philosophies, and stressed objectivity in presentation...
...report did not specify whether the upper level course, primarily for science concentrators and premedical students, would be organized departmentally or in the department of General Education. Although the course would specifically contain Gen. Ed. material, it would have as prerequisite the thorough knowledge of one science, hence qualifying it as a departmental course...
...other hand, it the corresponding College course is a half-course, more lecture and reading time is available in the Extension program and the work can be more thorough...
...case with the Tennessee Williams play, a choice beyond the abilities of the actors and the director. Although John Bernard, Michael Harwood and Fenton Hollander all revealed a possibility of success in their portrayals, failure to pick up lines and a tendency to throw away important statements thorough in articulation or misplaced emphasis prevented the work from hanging together as it should have...
...statues is expressed in an abhorrence of statues by other peoples. Among these are the Mohammedans, whose earliest success in Arabia came by overthrowing local idols and thereby calling attention to the universal God. Eastern Christianity was ripped by two great waves of iconoclasm scarcely less thorough than Mohammed's, and resting on the belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians, but the vast majority of Moslems still take very...