Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress...
Clearly it is not a faith for the tender-minded. It is a faith for a Lenten age. Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility. For, in the name of courage, which men have always rightly esteemed in one another as the indispensable virtue, he summons Protestants to seek truth...
Home of Research. Johns Hopkins, which is about the same age as Bowman, has known prophets before. It was one of the first U.S. universities to emphasize graduate research. Harvard's crusty President Charles W. Eliot had to admit that his own graduate school, "started feebly in 1870, did not thrive until . . . Johns Hopkins forced [it to]." To the tidy campus on the edge of Baltimore went Poet Sidney Lanier, Viscount Bryce, and James Russell Lowell to teach or lecture. Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Walter Reed studied there. Its medical school, which often overshadowed the rest...
...suffered from his status as the youngest-and unwanted-child, unable to gain the love of his inaccessible sexagenarian father. In the town his only kindred spirit was an eccentric doctor, more interested in composing vil-lanelles than in dosing colds. Among the boys & girls of his own age he was ill at ease, his mind roaming in regions they neither could nor wished to enter...
...suppose," remarks Robinson in an early letter, "it does look a little queer to see me practically doing nothing at my age." These words touched on the festering sore of his conscience. Robinson could never quite accept the implications of his belief that "dollars are convenient things to have . . . but this diabolical, dirty race that men are running after them disgusts me. . . ." While bravely declaring "business be damned," he ruefully comments that "poetry is a good thing, provided a man is warm enough...