Sentences with phrase «early twentieth century as»

Just as the surrealists invented the technique in the early twentieth century as a playful and ultimately enriching exercise, the present drawings combine the two artists» distinct styles in a revealing and often seamless fashion.

Once known as the «richest town in the world,» Brookline became known in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the home of...

Once known as the «richest town in the world,» Brookline became known in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the home of significant figures in the worlds of arts and culture: architect Henry Hobson Richardson, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, poet Amy Lowell, and novelist Saul Bellow all called Brookline home.

Established in the early twentieth century as a college for teachers, the University of Southern Mississippi continues to provide educators with innovative and accredited programs.

Someday, Farah suspects, we may look back at the cognitive enhancers of the early twentieth century as the first step towards a Singularity - like era.

EDIT: Yuval Levin has just written a book which argues that the positive rights vision of liberalism originated not with Dewey in the early twentieth century as I suggested, but rather in the late 1700's with Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers.

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Such flowery verbiage is not unusual at National Cathedral, conceived early in the twentieth century as an American version of Westminster Abbey to enshrine the spiritual achievements of American Christianity, statecraft and civil religion.

Part of Maritain's appeal as a philosopher of art stems from his intimate contact with the creative atmosphere of early - twentieth - century France.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

Boreham was born in England and spent his entire adult life as a pastor in New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia in the early to mid twentieth century.

In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most of my life), I was disappointed again and again by the common Victorian and early twentieth - century convention of beginning a chapter with lush description and then abandoning it in favor of....

Mention of the Donatists is a reminder of the agonizing choices that those who have faced persecution have had to make, as much in the twentieth century under Fascist and Communist regimes, as in the early centuries of the church.

When I first met her, Mary, who was to become my wife, was secretary of the Cambridge branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was founded as a Christian Pacifist Organization early in the twentieth century.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

Hollinger thinks our intellectual culture would be healthier if we had today people such as Robert Ingersoll, a brilliant atheist who in the early twentieth century toured the country lambasting religion.

In the early twentieth century, the particles were understood as atoms.

Just as twentieth - century myths have to be combated, so did earlier ones.

My family had been in Brooklyn (or, as I will ever call it, God's country) for over a century, refugees from the Lower East Side and a Jacob Riis — style life in early - twentieth - century New York.

As the bills for the sexual revolution pile up, it looks as if the late nineteenth and early twentieth century feminists were closer to the marAs the bills for the sexual revolution pile up, it looks as if the late nineteenth and early twentieth century feminists were closer to the maras if the late nineteenth and early twentieth century feminists were closer to the mark.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

These theological giants in the early and middle twentieth century rescued preaching from what E. M. Forster once called «poor chatty little Christianity,» and, along with their more recent successors such as Ebeling and Fuchs, took Word primarily to be explosive, confrontative power.

In David Tracy's summation, this eventful Word was first released in the prophetic and eschatological strains of both Testaments, paradigmatically expressed in the parables of Jesus and the Pauline theology of the cross, retrieved in the word event which was the Reformation and recalled for and in our word - impoverished, wordy culture by those early twentieth - century classic exponents of the power of the Christian proclaimed word as that proclamation disclosed anew the event of Jesus Christ.

He has been especially important for those who lost their faith in Marxism, which for a few decades in the early — to mid — twentieth century served as a surrogate for theology and metaphysics.

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

The Pan-Slav and Pan-German movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were additional roots for Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism, breaking open, as they did, the traditional notions of nationhood and territory.

In the early twentieth century, Indian Christians demonstrated this goal of self - propagation through the Madura Church Council's initial emphasis on every church member as an evangelist; and in the growing leadership of Indian teachers, doctors, nurses, and administrators in Christian institutions like schools and hospitals.

Many of the lay organizations formed in the late nineteenth or the early twentieth centuries have now ceased to exist or their work has been greatly modified — as in the case with the Y's, for example.

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»

And it has been pointed earlier, some of them were employed village messengers20 and some as watchmen of the village chavadi by the middle of Twentieth century.

Much of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was taken up with idolatrous aesthetics as beauty became divorced from the good.

The books concerned were Augustine's on The Trinity, on God as threefold, and on The City of God, written in the early years of the fifth century when the city of man, notably Rome, was looking to be shaky, texts still of great interest to historians and theologians in the twentieth century.

In the early twentieth century many wanted to defend the social and economic system exactly as it was, but that could not be.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far - reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely - held belief marked by justice, fairness and peace provocatively refashions the history of early - twentieth - century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality.

The British socialist and labour movements of the late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century chose to view Magna Carta as an important symbol to invoke in their own struggles against the current system and its abuses.

In part the act was intended as a remedy for the House of Commons» tendency in the late - nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries to amend church legislation with provisions that would have disestablished it.

While the replacement of the FPTP system had been considered since as early as the turn of the twentieth century, it never garnered enough support in Westminster, until the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition took office in 2010.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

Early in the twentieth century the astronomer Henrietta Leavitt found that the brightness of this type of star was related to its period and could therefore be used as a cosmic measuring rod.

Bikes evolved by trial and error, and by the early twentieth century they looked much as they do today.

As nations conducted Arctic explorations in the early twentieth century, international science was part of the mandate.

Back in the early twentieth century, Dr. Max Gerson, MD, became famous for using coffee enemas as an alternative pain reliever for German soldiers when supply lines failed during WWI.

In Chapter 1 the authors continue their fraudulent summation: «The most noteworthy observer of the declining health of primitive cultures was Dr. Weston Price, a remarkable medical researcher who began his career as a dentist in Ohio in the early part of the twentieth century [is]....

Most of it is taken up by the Republic of Ireland, which declared independence from the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century... as well as churches and...

Jarrod Emerson's Tribute to Omar Sharif Part 3: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) We follow the life of «Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago» (Sharif), a doctor by profession, but a poet at heart, as he and loved ones endure the hardships of various conflicts in early twentieth century Russia.

Crowe's side of the film plays like some kind of «Bored - walk Empire,» where men in early - twentieth century suits and hats fret and impotently throw their weight around, but at least Crowe gets to hang out with a movie star who puts in a unbilled (and uninspired) two - scene turn as Lucifer.

Imagery so lush and intense, matched with the most beautiful Morricone score, make this Malick film — found and made in the editing room — a breathtaking ninety - four - minute montage of early twentieth - century rural life that remains unsurpassed as an example of a searching New Hollywood mastery.

As I noted in The Same Thing Over and Over, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.»

Stanford University's David Labaree, a respected historian of education, explains that, as far back as the early twentieth century, school reformers were pushing for efficiency and utility, while education professors wanted schools to help individual children blossom and develop a lifelong love of learning.