Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...please don't ask how I got it, and I just have to get into the newspapers before they do." "They?" "The syndicate." "Which one?" "The New York Times Syndicate." I lunged for the phone and dialed my editor. "By the way, babycakes, who are you?" She thought a minute: "Just call me ... 'Deep Book...
Death and taxes may be two great inevitabilities, but they are usually thought to be mutually exclusive. Kenneth Swenka, 48, a farmer in North Liberty, Iowa, found otherwise after the death of his three-year-old German shepherd, Lobo. When Swenka went to pay his county property taxes, he learned that they included a $1 levy on Lobo. Swenka told the authorities that the dog was dead, but was informed that since the tax had already been officially registered, he would have to pay. He reluctantly agreed. Then he found out that by Iowa...
...between Ethiopia and Somalia in the Horn of Africa ground grimly on last week. On the battlefield the Ethiopians and their Soviet and Cuban advisers, who are now thought to total about 6,000, were clearly gaining in their drive to oust Somalian forces from Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. But if the Somalis were running scared, there was little sign of it in their capital, Mogadishu. The mood was all but jubilant, as the government announced a general mobilization and inducted 30,000 volunteers, including women and 15-year-olds, in a national militia...
...have been at odds with the church hierarchy about this dogma. They argue that orthodox theology is too static and abstract and has overemphasized Jesus' divinity to the point where he has been stripped of his full humanity. One of the most outspoken advocates of this school of thought is Priest-Theologian Hans Küng, 49, of the University of Tübingen, Germany. Küng, who has previously struggled with the Vatican on other issues, has been accused by his country's bishops of disseminating dangerous views about Christ. Last week, after three years...
...Chalcedon provided "a valid and permanently binding" version of what the New Testament teaches, "namely [that] in Jesus Christ, God Himself has entered into a human history." All the dogmas and investigations of the mystery of God in Christ, he concedes, "come up against an insuperable limit of thought, speech and sympathetic insight." To Kasper, however, this limitation is actually "something extremely positive, not darkness but excess of light, dazzling to our eyes...