Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Existentialism, unlike traditional philosophies, does not try to think its way above or beyond man's subjective moods-it glorifies them. Fear and trembling, guilt and death, are valued by existentialists as concomitants of man's encounter with the void around him and his necessary decision to walk forward in the darkness. For existentialism, in spite of all its talk, is a philosophy of action; words by themselves do not count. "One who murmurs in his beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing...
...South Dakota legislature put into effect last July 1 a new law which makes it illegal for Hutterite communes to buy more land in the state. Six weeks later a Hutterite colony near Redfield completed negotiations to buy 80 acres of land. The state went to court to void the deal, and the last legal briefs were submitted to the Circuit Court last week...
...article on religion is abysmally bad. The lack of research and factual mistakes are matched by the jargon-filled sentences, and shoddy organization. The incorrect use of such words as "chiliastic," and sentences like "..the possibility of a student existing in an associative void is practically nil" are typical. For the second time the impact of The Rev. George A. Buttrick on Memorial Church and undergraduate church-going habits is ignored. The Christian Fellowship, an extremely unrepresentative, largely fundamentalist group, is used to represent Protestant students on campus, and is compared with Hillel and the Catholic Club. For the second...
...executive Richard O'Connell last night revealed that the agreement was void because of a "League Policy," according to scheme originator Carl Sloane...
Such a presidential group would have several successful precedents. In the past, presidential commissions have helped change aimless political bickering into constructive action on national problems. For many years, legislation on civil rights and international trade problems staggered in a void of informed opinion. The Report of President Truman's Commission on Civil Rights, however helped create favorable attitudes for local action to eliminate discrimination in employment, education, and housing...