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...concept that the flesh is evil and that sex is related to the flesh and is therefore evil is not a part of historical Christianity," he stressed, adding, "Christianity is the most materialistic of the religions. Another misconception concerning Christianity is that 'man shall be conceived in sin'. This is not a Christian conviction; actually the story of Adam and Eve from which it stems was a clumsy attempt of the early Hebrews to explain how sin came into the world...
Gaus acted as chairman of the committee. Elliott and Holcombe present the two halves of the course, "The Development of the Concept of Constitutional Government" and "Modern Government," respectively...
...turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something still on the stalk. To bearded Jazz Pedant Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from the people and then got lost...
When the Korean war began, Cronin was ordered to start Civilian Defense on a war scale. But this involved changing the whole concept because, Cronin said, "In world War II we expected pin-point bombing, but now with atomic bombs, guided missiles, and bacterial warfare, we must organize a large-scale group read to cope with anything...
Simonson has modified Jones' emphasis on the designer's personality, but has generally remained true to the concept of interpretive, selective realism. A superb example of this is his setting for the Theatre Guild's "Liliom" in 1921. He filled the stage with patterns of light, form, and color, yet the treatment remained realistic...