Word: twentieths
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Binding Force. Today the Churches of Christ number some 1,200,000 baptized members in 15,000 fully autonomous churches. Brother Young is the nearest thing to a binding force among them; he edits Twentieth Century Christian, a monthly magazine promoting Churches of Christ beliefs, writes and edits (with his wife Helen) a bimonthly of daily devotional reading called Power for Today, and a weekly column for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. Next week he leaves Lubbock for Los Angeles, where he will head George Pepperdine College, one of four senior colleges run on Churches of Christ principles and supported...
...deserves credit for stepping into her role on one day's notice. Paul Fithian's fatuous Amphitryon, Henry Franck's priggish Trumpeter, Ellen Whitman's inappropriately uncosmopolitan Queen Leda contribute to the carnival of characters who romp through the play. Giraudoux's classico-modern play is typical of many twentieth century French plays that use classical myths to reveal unexpected truths about contemporary social or political conditions. Contemporary problems treated as versions of Greek myths not only retain the desirable characteristics of classical drama (strong simplicity and universal suggestiveness); but the imaginative power of the classic myth enables modern authors...
...there is little on the horizon to indicate any real slackening in the economic tide. In a report issued this week, the Twentieth Century Fund declared that U.S. productive power has grown at such a spectacular rate over the last half-century that the American economy has assumed entirely new dimensions. "The U.S. has not merely climbed to a new plateau but is ascending heights whose upper limit is not yet measurable, and at an accelerated rate of speed. Our long-term trend is unmistakably upward...
Hans Kohn, professor of History at CCNY, again teaches the two largest courses, History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth Century Continental Europe, and Government s-178, The World in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of International Relations...
...which to fight and die. It is a tool, and a great tool, to be used or laid aside as the genius of any people directs." Communism is "a means of dividing and enslaving thought and will. It should go back to its historical cemetery." As for Nationalism, the twentieth century subtracted from it the ability "to maintain national life." As he flicks the shrouds of his chosen ghosts. Author Berle agrees with Barbara Ward that the only way to exorcise them permanently is to set up economic and political "world organizations...