Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THRIFT, DUTY, SELF HELP and so on. Kitaj ended up as a dissenter from the whole concept. His experience at Lockheed, he reported, proved "a confirmation of the utter boredom I always feel when art and science try to meet-the feeling of very slender accomplishment in those forms of art which pretend to operate scientifically...
America, the land of revivalism, has from the start alternated in its view between an awesome Christ and an accessible Christ. In the Calvinism of the original Great Awakening, Jesus was a severe judge; Jonathan Edwards and others emphasized sinful man's utter helplessness before him. In the 19th century revivals of Charles G. Finney and Dwight L. Moody, however, the Lord had become more sympathetic: he began to help those who helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that...
...reaction of Jewish faculty, student, and alumni at Harvard was, of course, one of utter horror. But he had not only alienated the Jewish community. Paradoxically, his actions in the Memorial Church Crisis caused a permanent rift between him and exactly the one constituency he needed to establish a viable control over the university-the old WASP families which hold the balance of power in the university...
...city. Nixon tried to separate himself from the school-integration issue, noting that "the recent decision of the Supreme Court [approving busing in order to racially balance schools] presents some more problems." He echoed Southern feelings about the North on racial matters when he said, "I have nothing but utter contempt for the double hypocritical standard of Northerners who look at the South and point the finger and say, 'Why don't those Southerners do something about their race problem...
...horror of the war-if something so one-sided can be called war-is made increasingly tragic by the utter simplicity of the Lao people...