Word: wanes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...changes, as theologians change, says the Rev. Karl Parker, executive director of the Association of Churches of Greater Houston. "It used to be 'atmosphere.' Then it became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined in a Nazi prison by Bonhoeffer during...
...positive efforts of Radcliffe, sex-segregation is on the wane in the Harvard community.... Along with this cultural change come necessary changes in what we know as morality...
CONTINENTS just sit there by the centuries, while across their terrains crops grow, peoples wax and wane, and nations struggle. Sometimes even the slowest of continents quickens into the news: Africa's burst of independence three years ago made it something more than a locale for Hemingway movies, and the Middle East region, so volatile in the mid-'sos, is becoming so again. Journalistically, it is increasingly the turn of Latin America. For too many years that area was ignored by many Yanquis, who regarded it as a place inhabited by an undistinguishably homogeneous group of Latins...
Having seen the show, I agree that the paintings offer little beyond the purely decorative. In this respect, they are, to a varying degree, successful. This has been, however, characteristic of American art during the wane of abstract expressionism. It is insufficient cause for accusing Mr. Rutman of artistic impotence. To ask, "Why do such galleries exist?" on the basis of one displeasing show, is simple-minded provincialism...
...West German Public Health Ministry arrived at its figure after canvassing West Germany and learning that 5,000 thalidomide babies are still alive. Generally, one-third to one-half of these malformed babies die. Though the number of malformed infants was at last on the wane, Ministry Spokesman Dr. Siegfried Stralau anticipated that more would appear in the fall. The drug was pulled off the German market last November, but some women who had it in their medicine chests kept right on using...