Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...edged with Gallic suspicion): That's too good to be true? A. (in most sagacious tones): You don't want me-his mother and best election agent-to unveil the weaknesses of my John? . . . Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals sternly debated the question of whether Cinemactress Kim Novak can dance on the head of a pin. Reviewing her latest movie, Strangers When We Meet, Critic Stanley Kauffmann announced in the New Republic that Kim's diction struck him as an "unvaried strangulated hush." Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first...
...Shakespeare (Richard III} Every day, hundreds of thousands of U.S. women have in the back of their minds the nagging question, "Will my baby be normal?'' Each year, for most of the 4,250,000 newly delivered mothers, it becomes, "Is the baby all right?" For more than 4,000,000 of them the answer is yes, to sighs of vast relief. But to the remainder, doctors and nurses try to postpone breaking the news that the baby is in some way malformed. If the child lives, he may later join "Richard the Crouchback" in railing against...
...idea that the universe must have been created, hence have a Creator, is scientifically old hat. Dr. Mascall, Huxley says, dealt with this question in his book, Christian Theology and Natural Science, by identifying creation "not with an act in the past by which the world was originated, but with an incessant activity [of God] by which it is conserved in existence . . . Preservation and creation are really identical." This, to Huxley, is nothing but "doubletalk. The whole range of physicochemical and biological phenomena can now be accounted for in principle in naturalistic terms: to invoke the operation...
...although science can raise the question 'What should man try to become?' and can even indicate some of the possibilities, it clearly cannot give an answer . . . For Christianity, the final term of human evolution and of human history is the Total Christ, composed of Head and members sharing a common supernatural life in that ultimate transfiguration of the created world which theology describes as the resurrection of the body for the life everlasting...
...strong are your instincts for survival?" the San Francisco Chronicle asked its readers three weeks ago. "Could you, an average city dweller, exist in the wilderness tomorrow with little more than your bare hands?" Having raised this nuclear-age question, the Chronicle announced that it was dubbing Outdoors Writer Harvey R. Boyd "The Last Man on Earth" and setting his entire family to a six-week survival test...