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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Victoria Spurgeon showed a pleasing but small voice, and the two pianos should have scaled their volume down to a suitable level. Tom Blodgett was commendable as the eventually resourceful suitor, Caroline Cross direct, Daniel Larner conducted, and Lionel Spiro devised a felicitously ridiculous statue.

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

These productions are guaranteed to foil the most non-risible.

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

In another form of negation, a man may lose confidence that his fellows possess the strength and wisdom to put their ideals into practice. Especially among students, negation may shield the "nascent frailty" of spiritual apprehensions that are not "sufficiently matured for either private acknowledgement or public exposure."

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Terms Persistent Negation Part of 'Faith's Inmost Character' | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

Further, men may violently repudiate "prudential reasons" when they are used to support secular ends. The promise that Grace will lead to "an enhancement of happiness, security, status, or the integrated personality," changes "an affirmation as big as life" into "a gimmick as old as Luther's bitter epigram: 'Man...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Terms Persistent Negation Part of 'Faith's Inmost Character' | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

Finally, negation may be the "protest of affirmative nature against what seems to be the sterilizing claims of grace." But all that man can know of God is the way in which he cannot know God," Sittler explained, and therefore negation "brings to decisive clarity precisely what is involved in...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Terms Persistent Negation Part of 'Faith's Inmost Character' | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

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