Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barth proclaimed a radically transcendent Creator whose message had been hurled like a stone at humanity. In contrast to an ethical, teaching Jesus, Barth preached a divine Christ who was, in his person, God's message to man. Rejecting the higher criticism that reduced the Bible to human wish fulfillment, Barth proclaimed the objective authority of Scripture. The Bible, he wrote, was not man's word about God, but God's word about man. Barth's thinking, which came to be known as "crisis theology" or "neo-orthodoxy," stressed a God who stood in constant judgment...
...wish there were more to say about films like these. A year and a half ago Hollywood's apparent but inconclusive degeneration could justify enough nervousness to take the time to carefully pull apart a God-awful film like Frankenheimer's Grand Prix; but these days it's harder to get mad and, as things stand, I guess Ice Station Zebra isn't all that bad. It has the potential for being a good picture, but hanging over it are the ghosts of rewrite, of producer Martin Ransohoff whittling away at anything individual, leaving a gutless synthetic: sure-fire product...
...administration and the faculty. If they wish they can insure that the ultimatums go on. They can insure that the students will lock themselves into angry twisted postures of defiance and hatred. The people of this university will be solidified into pressure groups, into islands of animosity and distrust, and each group will be securely fortified by walls of its own principles. We shall face each other then across unbridgeable barricades of distrust, resentment, and fear. The misplaced analysis of the university as groups of competing power blocs--an analysis that under the best circumstances need be only partially true...
...raised platforms, lushly carpeted and joined together by a narrow walkway. Ghostly music emanates from unseen speakers; colored lights flicker over the ceiling and walls. New arrivals are led to platforms, helped into their own translucent togas and encouraged to doff as many of their clothes as they wish. Stereo headphones are fitted by a delicate-fingered attendant, and plugged into the center of the platform; plastic pillows are passed out. Wordless gestures suggest that instant relaxation is the order...
...opposing this, I do not wish for a moment to suggest limiting the rights of individual Faculty members to share the Putnam position. This, however, is very different from committing the Faculty as a whole to it, with the implication that the members who dissented were not cognizant of the moral obligations of a University Faculty. Talcott Parsons Professor of Sociology