Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that lovely!' one is in danger of losing the way." Beauty's shadow is significance: "Every great painting shows something seen plus something seen into . . . sight and insight." If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking...
...Content & Form. The varieties of specific questions that can be asked within the three categories of Being, Existence and Life determine the form the answers will take, but not their content. The content of the answer is established by the data of Christian revelation. But the form in which the revelation is expressed derives from the form of the question asked...
Tillich's term for God is the "Ground of Being" or "Being-Itself," and "every act of courage is a manifestation of the ground of being, however questionable the content of the act may be . . . There are no valid arguments for the 'existence' of God, but there are acts of courage in which we affirm the power of being, whether we know it or not . . . Courage has revealing power; the courage to be is the key to being-itself...
...content with pleasing students as much as it already does, the Dining Halls Department is "exploring the possibility" of serving the same menu in all Houses next year. According to the Department head, the plan will probably be adopted...
...categories: the Expert and members of the general public. If the Expert's superior erudition fails to emerge during a program, we are told that we must blame its short duration--for there is seldom enough time. The general audience, blankly glazed before the home screen, is of course content to take the Expert's credentials as sufficient evidence that whatever he says is accurate. Whereas the humble citizen can express only opinions, the Expert is in the possession of facts...