Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard is moving ahead with plans to build 300 units of housing for University personnel on a long-controversial tract of land it owns near the Divinity School...
Absolute Secrecy. Nowhere was ABC more energetic than in California, where it mixed its usual shrewd salesmanship with strong appeals to patriotism. Describing a typical approach, Dr. Jack Hagadorn, a Costa Mesa physician, said that ABC representatives displayed a right-wing tract denouncing the use of tax money to aid Communist countries. By depriving the Government of such money, they argued, an individual could decide how it should be spent...
Fearful as it may be to other religious believers, the end is a prospect that rejoices the hearts of the 323,688 U.S. members of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, as the Witnesses are officially known (worldwide member ship: 1,155,826). In 1914, according to the sect's calculations, "God's timetable" ushered in the last days. Ever since then, Witnesses have longed for the end of "this wicked system of things" and the beginning of the millennium. According to their literal interpretation of The Bible, based on Revelation 14:1,* the Lord God will then...
...book may seem to be one more demonstration-and a notably self-conscious and unconvincing one-of a mercantile society's well-known and often belabored shortcomings. Tournier intended some satirical comment on civilization's defects, of course, or why else so pointedly rewrite a tract in which the Western world is praised? What gradually dawns on the surprised reader is that the author has accomplished much more. As a 20th century author, Tournier is concerned with Defoe's implicit but largely unexplored theme, the development of a mind in isolation. With a winning blend of Parisian...
...opinions into the mouths of his characters. But this "negative capability" was least in evidence in Henry V, in which Shakespeare set out to limn the unlimited glory of a national hero-conqueror, a model monarch. Yet Kahn has tried to make the play into a sardonic antiwar tract...