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...tried to write "realistic" biographies of Jesus. They stripped the Gospels of miraculous and dogmatic elements, and used new materials gleaned from non-Christian literary sources and from archaeology. Out of such efforts came such portraits as David Friedrich Strauss's Jesus as a Jewish sage, and Adolf von Harnack's Jesus as an ideal ethical humanist...
...Russell Sage College GWENDOLEN CARTER, professor of government, Smith College, and chairman of the political committee of the Advisory Council on African Affairs of the U.S. State Department L.H.D...
...nature of that spirit is portrayed by Toshiro Mifune; the angelic aspect by Masayuki Mori, who marvelously distinguishes in his expression what is specifically Christian from what is peculiarly Oriental in religious feeling: the light in the eyes of a saint from the light in the eyes of a sage...
Before he headed up to Capitol Hill for what promised to be a rough grilling by the House Information Subcommittee on the subject of "managed news,"-Pentagon Press Secretary Arthur Sylvester was given some sage advice by a coworker. "Never, under any circumstances whatsoever, use the word lie," urged Defense Department Counsel John McNaughton. "Don't use it negatively, don't use it positively. If you have to tell the committee you want to lie down, say recline...
...mile relay, the Harvard team of Awori, John Parker, Keith Chiappa, and Sage McAfee, all sophomores, amazed observers by edging both Yale and Army by about a yard. The team had won only two races during the dual-meet season, yet it somehow managed to tie the Heps record...