Sentences with phrase «middle of the twentieth century»

In trying to understand the extraordinary changes the Catholic Church underwent in the middle of the twentieth century, I recently came across two illuminating novels.

Auden's gloss on the Iliad amidst the wreckage of the middle of the twentieth century is dark, almost nihilistic.

This is the pathetic faith of Western man in the middle of the twentieth century, a faith utterly unjustified by experience.

What do you take to be the terms of our own problem, whether as individuals or as a community, in this world, in the middle of the twentieth century?

About the middle of the twentieth century, there seems to be a break in the tradition.

As recently as the middle of the twentieth century, church historian K.S. Latourette described the period 1815 - 1914 as «the greatest century which Christianity has thus far known» in its 2,000 - year history.1 Christendom might be dying but Christianity was very much alive.

Brueggemann recently displayed his trademark humility in acknowledging, «Until the middle of the twentieth century scripture study was essentially white males.

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.

The Peace of Westphalia not only fixed the geographic border in Germany between Protestantism and the Roman Catholic Church where, with relatively slight modifications, it remained beyond the middle of the twentieth century.

Von Balthasar's book was itself also part of a broader movement: in the middle of the twentieth century theologians like von Balthasar, de Lubac and Chenu were major proponents of the Ressourcement movement.

By the middle of the twentieth century, most doctors were not encouraging breastfeeding and most women did not choose this form of feeding.

It's as if Jack London decided to wake up in the middle of the twentieth century and start writing again.

Many of your examples of leaders who have abused history, or leaders who have used it well, come from the middle of the twentieth century.

Whether set in Elizabethan England or the middle of the twentieth century, historical fiction shows today's readers the differences and similarities of growing up in another era.

Since around the middle of the twentieth century, society has witnessed a marked decline in spiritual and moral values throughout the Western World, including a distinct weakening of traditional sexual mores.

In the middle of the twentieth century, package policies became popular.

My investigation S&P 500 Dividend Growth shows that nominal dividend amounts (i.e., before adjusting for inflation) have behaved very well since the middle of the twentieth century.

It wasn't until the middle of the twentieth century that McAllen grew beyond being a small agricultural town.

Developed in Germany, they came to this country during the middle of the twentieth century.

I doubt that painting will ever carry again the kind of privileged position that it once had up through the middle of the twentieth century.

In music, with the advances on recording technology, avant - garde artists started experimenting with cutting and pasting since the middle of the twentieth century.

After slavery was formally abolished, in 1865, racial terror lynching emerged in the late nineteenth century, and continued until about the middle of the twentieth century, as a vicious tool of racial control, to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights.

Stella wrote, «It is the legacy of Caravaggio's space and Caravaggio's illusionism that tipped the scales decisively in favor of abstraction by the middle of the twentieth century.»

Since the middle of the twentieth century, the grid has been the premier expression of this aesthetic of the sublime, and Piet Mondrian is its original champion.

Since the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the middle of the twentieth century, realist painting in America has mostly been at the back of the race.

In the middle of a twentieth century traumatized by the Second World War, Pollock's monumental work resembled a new creative beginning from which the movement that would be known as Abstract Expressionism sprang.

It's the latest research in more than a decade of work producing a climate «hockey stick» — graphs of global or regional temperatures showing relatively little variation over a millennium or more and then a sharp uptick since the middle of the twentieth century (the blade at the end of the stick).

Until the middle of the twentieth century, most ordinary country people lived in them.

While some types of plankton bloomed 30 days earlier at the beginning of this century than in the middle of the twentieth century, other types maintained their seasonal cycles throughout that period.7 Mismatches in marine communities and disruption of the food chain are the result.

Sail went into decline in the nineteenth century and had almost disappeared as a commercial means of moving ships by the middle of the twentieth century.

At the middle of the twentieth century, coal was clearly king, providing nearly 50 per cent of world energy production.

In the middle of the twentieth century, countries in need of investment by citizens of other countries, and countries whose citizens had resources to invest and a willingness to invest in foreign enterprises, devised bilateral investment treaties (BITs) or traités bilatéraux d'investissement (TBIs) to protect the rights of foreign investors on terms the enterprises in need of investment could accept.

Pending that, it is possible to fall back on anecdotal evidence and general impression, and some of that may be reassuring, suggesting that a good deal has changed in European and British society since the middle of the twentieth century — and that may be due in no short measure to the longer term political, moral and legal impact of measures such as the European Convention on Human Rights.

This is much easier today than it was in the middle of the twentieth century.

In the middle of the twentieth century, countries in need of investment by citizens of other countries, and countries whose citizens had resources to invest and a willingness to invest in foreign enterprises, devised bilateral investment treaties (BITs) or traités bilatéraux...

SCALIA AND GARNER contend that textual originalism was the dominant American method of judicial interpretation until the middle of the twentieth century.

In the middle of the twentieth century, package policies became popular.

It wasn't until the middle of the twentieth century that McAllen grew beyond being a small agricultural town.

From the middle of the twentieth century to the present, Gary has experienced drastic population loss, falling by 55 percent from its peak of 178,320 in 1960.