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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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I am happy to have the privilege of attending Harvard at a time when it has such staunch defenders of liberalism as Professors Schlesinger and Galbraith.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIC TRANSIT ... | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

Should the Corporation adopt the suggestions of these professors, may I humbly suggest that the motto of the University be changed from "Veritas" to "Sic Transit Gloria Universities." Robert Lee Behrens '34, ooC.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIC TRANSIT ... | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

"While "high tragedy requires an heroic alternative rejected," pathos emerges from a feeling that no alternatives exist. To say that "God is dead," as Nietzsche did, is tragic, because if He were alive He could save us. But to declare that God is absent is a "weary dismissal of all...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Calls Pathos, Not Tragedy, 'Motif of Our Self-Consciousness' | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

Defining Grace as God's "will-to-the-restoration, fulfillment, and blessedness of man," and Nature as "man in his actuality in the matrix of nature and in the human community of his fellows," Sittler drew a sharp distinction between "verification-as-proof" and "as-authentication." The "Narrative-character of...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Calls Pathos, Not Tragedy, 'Motif of Our Self-Consciousness' | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

Further, while "antiseptic and astringent criticism of the form of Christian affirmation" leads to clarification, it also brings about a "humorless constriction of the very terms it brings under analysis." In short, said Sittler, the context of confirmation is the "massive and organic story of man--in his analysis and...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Sittler Calls Pathos, Not Tragedy, 'Motif of Our Self-Consciousness' | 12/9/1959 | See Source »

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