Word: overstressed
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...don’t want to overstress the point about the composition of the committee. As Mitchell wrote to me in an e-mail, “the narrow question of its composition is far outweighed by who it listens to and how it undertakes its work...
...chairman of the Detroit conference on Church and Society. In his bestselling The Secular City, he stressed the need for a relevant Christianity, and for an avant-garde church that would be "a sign of the emergent city of man." Now Cox feels that the churches are beginning to overstress involvement at the expense of inner religious experience. "Once you transform everything into a mission for social action and lose the intrinsic joy of the spirit of worship, you are in danger of losing both," he says. "You don't really worship and you don't really serve...
...signs of overstress are plentiful. Many Americans are suffering from a sense that they are invaded. Their neighbor's picture window looks in on theirs, the freeways are too crowded, the beaches are jammed. Says Science-Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury: "The best thing that could happen to New York would be to blow up every other block and plant the rubble with grass, turning it into gardens and pools so that people could get away from...
...remember, someone told me at the time that this was a very wise decision. Maybe it was Henry Luce, though I might have made it up myself. In any event, I still feel no regrets. There's an advantage in the captive audience that I can't overstress. And so much of value goes on here completely divorced from the classroom. For instance, I thoroughly enjoy those lively discussions in the Winthrop House dining room...
When the Student Council shot over the head of he Faculty to appeal directly to President Conant on he issue of membership lists as a requirement for recognition of an undergraduate group, it may have trained the bounds of protocol and procedure, but it lid not overstress the importance of the problem. The question of the membership lists requires a full and air hearing in the Faculty, and we hope that the Council's breach of order will not dissuade the Faculty from giving this matter its attention...