Word: trended
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...concept of sin. During much of their history, Americans did not give a pin for theology, preferring to view sin more in terms of hellfirers and heartwarmers in the mold of Jonathan Edwards or Billy Graham. In recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism what Thomas Aquinas did for Roman Catholicism in the 13th century. For a report...
Only Trust. Amid all the casualness and general relaxation there were still some notable dangers abroad. One was that a new deal on disarmament might set a trend toward coexistence in Europe, i.e., accepting the division of Germany and the Russian conquest of the satellites as "a finality." Another danger was that Britain's decision to sell strategic goods to Red China might set a trend toward co-existence in Asia, i.e., recognition and respectability for Red China, a thought that the State Department speedily squashed (see below). But looming over the dangers was the fact that...
Shaking & Healing. Tillich's analysis of the layers of meaning in the chief dogma of Christianity, that of the Resurrection, lays bare the trend of his unorthodox thought. Where the physics-minded 19th century sought to "explain" the Resurrection and the miracles by means of physical phenomena, Tillich looks again to a psychological interpreation. The Resurrection is for Tillich ) both reality and myth-a myth that has always been present in what Jung calls nan's collective unconscious. The resurrection of gods and half-gods is a familiar mythological symbol, says Tillich, and he Jews of Jesus...
...upward trend in television-set prices brought only smiles from Radio Corp. of America. RCA had hoped that its $500 color set would bring the big breakthrough for color TV. But when black-and-white prices slid as low as $100 on some new portables, color lost out. With black-and-white prices going up, closing the price gap on color, Vice President Robert Seidel said RCA color sales this year were running two to one over 1956. Sylvania's President Don Mitchell estimated that 1957 color sales by the entire industry will run from...
Lucky Jim's 35-year-old creator is foremost among a group of postwar writers, e.g., John Wain, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde, Peter Towry, John Braine, who have given British writing in the '50s a specific trend and a unique temper...