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...week, the delegates of the World Council of Churches looked to their leaders to draw out of the 200-odd meetings some message for the world. There was plenty of disagreement about what the message could be, and the disagreements were well publicized. Newspapers across the U.S. sprouted an unfamiliar word-eschatology-and reported the theological differences on whether the Christian hope lay in this or the next world. In a sense the very attention paid to this disagreement was more significant than the disagreement itself. In the 20th century it was big news that more and more people...
...Wolf of Man." U Nu is a man of rough and unfamiliar plainness. His head is round, his mouth seems rather large for his face, and his brown eyes fix visitors with peculiar intentness. His manner is sedate; his piety is apparent, and sincere. He betrays no concern that a Rangoon magazine is currently serializing a novel called Man the Wolf of Man (written in 1943) with a remarkable autobiographical preface by its author...
...Dusen's concluding advice to Christians in a Lenten era: "American Christians [at Evanston] must come to grips with [a] term almost as unfamiliar to their ears as was the term 'ecumenical' 20 or even 10 years ago-the term 'eschatological.' Not only must they accustom their ears to the sound of the word; they must give their minds and hearts to the attempt to comprehend it and why it holds so decisive, so pivotal a place in the hope of fellow Christians in many lands and of many traditions...
Section instruction in all six courses should receive particular attention. Teaching fellows are ordinarily graduate students in science, unfamiliar with the methods of explaining their field on its simplest level. Problem solving, the terror of most students, yet vital for an understanding of fundamental principles is especially hard to teach. Graduate students in the School of Education who are preparing for a career in science teaching would be better suited to conduct sections...
Between the afternoon time trials and the evening final, however, the Crimson sophomore practiced the unfamiliar new kick and decided to use it in the race that night. He did, and overtook Baarcke in the last 25 yards to win in 58.8 seconds, his fastest time to date...