Sentences with phrase «of old essays»

Unlike those activities, naysaying relies on conventional wisdom — as found, say, in vote - seekers from the courthouse, certain regulars at the men's Bible class or readers of old essays in medical ethics.

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For anyone trying to grapple with the complicated issue of sexual harassment and abuses of male power and privilege, the 44 - year - old Lewinsky's recent essay in Vanity Fair magazine comes at the perfect time...

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

Much more typical of Marxism between the two wars is the position of Lukács, which can be seen very clearly from an early essay on «Old Culture and New Culture» (Kommunismus, Zeitschrift der Kommunistischen Internationale für die Länder Südosteuropas, 1920 pp. 1538 — 49).

(CNN)- The founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, wed as many as 40 wives, including some who were already married and one as young as 14 years old, the church acknowledged in a surprising new essay.

As an Economist essay put it earlier this year, «the older sort of diplomacy seems to be coming back.»

A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: «I am twenty - seven years old and hope to live to see the end of the twentieth century.»

Children were expected to write letters to family and friends once they got older, not essays on the soliloquies of Hamlet.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

The 14 essays are divided into three categories: «Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Aging,» «Critical Perspectives on Modem Problems of Aging» and «The Christian Practice of Growing Old.»

These essays make a large distinction between the place of the old in society and their place in the church.

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

The essay, by Nancy M. Haegel, is a rather touching affirmation of an older form of liberalism, by no means dead, that is deserving of careful attention.

H. H. Rowley, «The Interpretation of the Song of Songs,» in The Servant of the Lord and Other Essays on the Old Testament, ed.

I believe Wright is wrong with his «New Perspective on Paul» idea, but I think he is right on target with this essay and helped confirm some of what I have been thinking about a new (or old) approach to reading the Bible.

Then I came across an essay by C.S. Lewis called, «On the Reading of Old Books,» and it completely changed my perspective.

We must assume that under the rapidly mounting pressures forcing them upon one another the human molecules will ultimately succeed in finding their way through the critical barrier of mutual repulsion to enter the inner zone of attraction (This is an old idea which I advanced nearly twenty years ago in an unpublished essay entitled, The Spirit of Earth.)

The author of this article appears to have not read one complete novel or non-fiction essay by Rand or, apparently, the Old and New Testaments.

Not for them is the more reflective counsel of Judith Martin (who writes as «Miss Manners»; see her essay «The Oldest Virtue,» FT, May 1993).

Although these «new essays in philosophical theology» displayed a certain refinement of analytical tools, the synthesis they were used to build (or to destroy) was by and large the same old natural theology that Barth had repudiated.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s widely noticed essay in the New York Times Book Review last summer, «The Opening of the American Mind,» illustrates among other things the truth of the old adage, les extremes touchent.

In a provocative essay appearing in these pages a while ago, Stephen Swecker challenged religious thinking to abandon its old allegiance to conventional modes of speech and categories of meaning and to plunge into a far deeper and richer pool of experience: the murky waters of unbridled imagination, or «fantasy» (see «Toward a Theology of the Fantastic,» Christian Century, January 16).

Her first book, The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning, is a collection of old and new personal essays on the topics of marriage, sex, and love, divided into three sections: «NFP and Your Spiritual Life,» «NFP and the Rest of the World,» and «NFP in the Trenches.»

In addition to preparing the essays on the Gospels of Matthew and John, both of them rich with perceptive and unexpected observations, Kermode offers an extremely good introduction to the New Testament, balancing Alter's equally adroit introduction to the Old — though why, with scholars of the stature of Robert M. Grant and Harry Gamble available, Kermode took upon himself the task of supplying the chapter on the making of the canon is anybody's guess.

At the close of his essay Gene Logsdon asks, «Could humankind for once end an old cycle and begin a new one based on a pastoral food system without an intervening decline or collapse of the economy and civilization?»

In 1922, Scoville won the Ebert Prize from the American Pharmaceutical Association; the prize, established in 1873, is the oldest pharmacy award in existence in the United States and is awarded to the best essay or written communication containing an original investigation of a medicinal substance in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Curry Kirkpatrick's Good Old Violence (Jan. 5) is one of the funniest essays I have ever read in your magazine.

Narratives range from humorous to heart - wrenching: a teen is smitten by an older boy, a son battles drug addiction, a parent steals the unthinkable, a daughter and her family navigate thunderstorms, a mother redefines «home» for her autistic son — plus compelling essays on parenting teens with chronic illness or anxiety disorders or that inevitable phase of parenting which requires letting go of your teenager.

I have written an essay «After New Labour» very much about how to escape this choice between what you define rather well as Old Old Labour and Old New Labour - a choice between the politics of the 1970s or the 1990s.

In an essay sent to supporters via email, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, a supporter of Trump's presidential bid, takes Ailes to task for backing an «old guard» who boosted Mitt Romney and now Jeb Bush's White House campaigns.

The 86 - year - old stepsister of Holocaust victim Anne Frank claims that Republican presidential front - runner Trump is «acting like another Hitler,» in an essay marking Holocaust Memorial Day.

The 41 - year - old was co-author of the Orange Book, a 2004 collection of essays by Lib Dem rising stars about the party's future policy direction.

Thanks to a brother - in - law with a basement full of computers of overlapping generations, I recently resurrected my old college entrance essays in their original WordPerfect 5.1 format.

Second prize of # 500, to Christopher Riley of the Department of Geology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, for his essay «A new look at an old mountain»

ON 4 February 1923, the 31 - year - old biochemist J. B. S. Haldane read an essay on science and the future to members of the Heretics Club at Cambridge University.

A hundred years ago he wrote essays and stories of the unspoiled native wisdom of old Japan that have never been rivalled for their syrupy romanticism.

Papers by Christopher Peacocke and Tim Crane try to throw light on the kinds of nonpropositional and nonconceptual content that states of mind can have, and there are good essays on an old question about sight and touch (Michael Martin) and the relations between per - ception and action (Brian O'Shaugnessy).

While you might be dreading meeting older family members due to 50 + years of internalized racism, In an essay entitled The Reality of Dating White Women When I'm a Black Woman Dating a White Man, and This Is the Actual Reality of Interracial Dating.

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Read the comedian's essay for TIME on changing the world of online dating An online dating site for mature singles, for single men and women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and older living in the USA.

The 31 year - old star of «Mad Men» (which wrapped its third season this week, though me and my fellow Brits haven't even got started) has essayed the best female character in American film or TV in two years, gives great interview and, -LSB-...]

In the opening moments of «The Spectacular Now,» 17 - year - old Sutter is trying to bluff his way through the infamous personal essay on a college application.

This essay is timely in its discussion of the Coens and the Western because the Coens» latest film, True Grit — a more traditional Western — is opposite No Country for Old Men in terms of nihilism: True Grit helps preserve social order while No Country for Old Men deconstructs it.

An older documentary, «A Profile of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and some galleries of production stills and original Blimp cartoons add some final pieces of lighter context, while the disc booklet features a lengthy essay from the incomparable Molly Haskel.

The 47 - year - old actor, who essays the role of Wolverine in the franchise, will be flying to Montreal in January for the reshoot, reported Aceshowbiz quoting Le Journal de Montreal.

And in the essay, Peet talked about aging in Hollywood, a topic that has been discussed by other actresses such as Meryl Streep, Sarah Silverman and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who told TheWrap last May that she was turned down for a role in a movie because she, at 37, was too old to play the love interest of a 55 - year - old man.

In an essay for the Huffington Post, the 42 - year - old actor — who initially dropped out of full - time education in the ninth grade — explained how he'd achieved his diploma after completing an internet study programme.

To celebrate the release of Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, his Italy - set film about the summer romance between 17 - year - old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and older American grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer), we are dedicating a full week to essays on the film.