Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pollard suggests the difficulty. It has been so long since we have had a Christian culture that 1957 can hardly understand the Christian revelation. When these men talk about life after death, resurrection, judgment, and God, their words sound hollow. There is no reference to a common experience except despair. There are no shared meanings, because such things can only grow in a community in which such concepts are imminent facts...
...other hand, the Churches are trying to create a new Christian order, then the first business at hand is to define that order and forget the educational experiment for a few centuries. What, for instance, is the contemporary world supposed to understand by the Christian use of the word "God"? How are we to take statements about heaven and hell or the day of judgment? When these questions can be answered in ways which move men to live again, then we can talk about Christian education
...completely at a loss to understand TIME'S (and NBC's) puzzlement over Sid Caesar's current predicament [May 27]. Your paragraphs about "overexposure" were so much wasted space. Other comedians have cried the blues about TV, have floundered and failed. Sid alone has gone on year after year getting better all the time. There is nothing mysterious whatever about Lawrence Welk getting the higher rating; the higher the art form, the smaller its TV audience. STEVE ALLEN New York City...
...must openly admit that my leadership was at fault," said the 69-year-old Generalissimo. But he added that he "could well understand the indignation of the masses" at the court-martial verdict that completely cleared a U.S. Army master sergeant in the shooting of a Chinese "Peeping Tom" before his house...
...months the taunt as well as the talk of Paris, Dutourd's book does not explain anything-it merely accuses. Zola himself might have been proud of its polemic passion; few Americans will fail to be moved -or to understand France better-reading this cry from the heart of an enraged patriot. On Dutourd's lips, the famed French proverb becomes: "To understand all is to forgive nothing...