Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force. Toynbee's sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee's vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as "fossilized relics" fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival...
...whole attitude toward a profession that is too often caricatured as made up of frustrated Our Miss Brookses. Meanwhile, "makeshifts" will have to do. We can only minimize the damage, maintain standards as best we can for the time being, and lay a foundation for future recovery. If we fail, the consequences will be disastrous...
...This I Cannot Do, O Lord." Labeled an "intellectual snob" by a fellow nun at the School of Tropical Medicines, Gabrielle was asked by her Mother Superior: "Would you, Sister Luke, be big enough, tall enough, to fail your examinations to show humility?" Gabrielle prayed for guidance, but concluded with her own answer: "This I cannot do, O Lord." She graduated fourth in a class of 80. The daughter of a doctor, Gabrielle had fervently hoped to be sent to the Belgian Congo as a missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared...
...works that inspired the existentialist movement in Paris after World War II. Influenced by the moral austerity of Ibsen and the mystical ruminations of Danish Theologian-Existentialist Sören Kierkegaard, the book argued the toss between faith and reason in a way that could not fail to cause offense to the Spanish hierarchy. In Unamuno's picture of man, man's worst friend was his dogma. He argued: flesh-and-blood man must assert his identity in the face of death. This seemed to leave God out of the picture, so in 1914, with an assist from...
...ubiquitous Billy Graham good for Christianity? Though many will fail to understand how anyone who preaches the Bible could be bad for it, there are those who feel that where the gospel is concerned, half a loaf can be worse than no bread. The Billy Graham debate is waxing hot in the pages of the Protestant weekly Christian Century...