Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nature of the Protestant ministry and its professional training. We now have, in place of guess-work, reliable information as to these matters. Meanwhile the Conference has been drawing up a list of accredited theological schools, which have academic equipment and standards of decent graduate school level. The attempt to establish such standards has, of course, aroused resentment in those quarters where piety is cultivated at the expense of sober learning. Nevertheless, if a church is to go through the motions of giving its ministry an academic training, there is no hallway house in which it can complacently settle down...
...ideas seem oblique, but they seem oblique here because an attempt has been made to translate them into prose, which should not have been done in the first place. If the reader should be bogged down by the poems, but is willing to accept their challenge, he has a wealth of critical material from which to get help...
...largest U. S. chain. Reading from a bristling statement he had prepared for just such a situation, Henritze gave his fellow members something to think about: "Safeway is emphatically against any increase in this markup. A higher markup goes beyond the sound purposes of the law and represents an attempt to use the law as an instrument to fix prices. . . . The Department of Justice already has issued warnings against combinations under any guise whatever taking advantage of the war crisis to raise prices to consumers. . . . Safeway is forced to resign." With that he left the hall, ignoring shouts that...
Last month Edna St. Vincent Millay was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She plans to spend the coming winter-as if in an attempt to holystone an overstuffed literary position-verse-pamphleteering about current events. The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come...
There are a few such patches of emotional clarity in Make Bright the Arrows. But the book as a whole represents Millay's unwitting attempt to pay off her literary debt to War. War alone could make disillusions such as hers come true...