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During a thirteen-year period (1966-78). I spent a cumulative nine years in former French Africa as a planner and manager of many development projects, employed by both public and private organizations. In its relatively rigid economic approach to the problems of development, HIID has been, for the past few years, viewed by many of my colleagues and myself as unfortunately disappointing in its contribution to professional thinking while understanding and conceptions elsewhere expanded regarding what are the critical components of the development process--only some of which are economic...
...Soviets operate with a rigid ideology that defines time as an ally, sets long-term objectives and a schedule to achieve them. They simply believe the state of things in today's world is temporary and intend, within the framework of a grand design, to change the world as conditions become favorable. Forcing them to do with less grain or fish will not be enough to change their minds...
...serious scholar, küng has never "denied outright" any doctrines "central to the Catholic faith," but has rather sought to critically examine and clarify them for his contemporaries. The real struggle is that between those in the hierarchy who seek to maintain rigid, male, celibate control over the "People of God" and those who seek genuine dialogue, reconciliation and a Christian ministry truly shared...
After the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in 1853, the Dutch church was fervently traditionalist. As of 1939, the tiny country produced fully 11 % of Catholicism's missionary priests. But during World War II rigid lines between Catholics and Protestants began to break down, when the two rival faiths were thrown together in resisting the occupying Nazis. In the mid-1960s and early '70s, encouraged by the mood of innovation that followed the Second Vatican Council, the attitudes of many Dutch Catholics changed radically...
...points the emphasis was on style, on the inherent artificiality of art, its inability to be confused with nature, and its newly declared aim, in Fénéon's words, of "decorating a rigid, rectangular surface." Others, like Maurice Denis, wanted to restore art to the primacy as religious utterance that it had enjoyed before the deluge of 1789: "Lord," Denis exclaimed in his diary in 1889?the year the Eiffel Tower, symbol of materialist progress, was built?"we are a group of young people, devotees of the symbol, misunderstood by a world which mocks us Mystics! Lord, I pray...