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Word: agnosticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dolci's complexity is really a radical innocence: he has an immediate and child-like reaction to wrong, and a child's ruthless logic: "I studied architecture in Rome and Milan, but one day I thought it over. In a country like Italy, architecture is for the rich. It becomes...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Radical Innocent | 3/22/1961 | See Source »

For Brecht was an atheist who believed not in the truth, but in probability. In contrast to the agnostic, he did not doubt for the sake of doubting; he weighed alternative courses of action for the sake of choosing one, and he chose Communism not because it struck him as...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Bertolt Brecht's Communist Writings: The Poetry and Politics of Disillusion | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

Instead of the hard-paced, sharp-edged direction that Herman Shumlin brought to the play, there is in the film a sluggish, confused manipulation of ideas and players. Instead of Actor Muni there is Spencer Tracy, the Hollywooden archetype of the wise old man, who as the years and pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 17, 1960 | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

Best Reading The Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The grief of a 59-year-old plumber over the sudden death of his wife is the unlikely subject of this remarkably skillful first novel. With telling economy, Author Wallant suggests the climate of a marriage, the texture of sorrow without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

A personable, soft-spoken Negro named Wiley Rowe, 29, in the reverse collar and black habit of a priest, was unfrocked last week by Detroit police for passing a bad check in a jewelry store. A former theology student, he had changed his mission in life but not his garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Question of Conscience | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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