Word: agnosticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eakins came to his insight the hard way-through his own dashed hopes and disillusionments. His distinguished teaching career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts had ended abruptly when he insisted on the need for students to draw from nude models. His great medical pictures, The Agnew Clinic and...
Seances and Psi. Stockwood is not the only Anglican clergyman to dabble in telepathy, seances and other "psi" phenomena. He happens to be vice president of a group called the Churches Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, whose patrons include 20 bishops of the Anglican Communion. One of the fellowship...
His first book Down and Out in Paris and London records in an oral-tactile way what it was like to be a dish washer, a tramp and a louse-ridden outsider. In The Road to Wigan Pier, he experienced the squalor of hopelessness while his pink pals were pitying...
After Harold Painter's wife died in an automobile accident in 1962, he sent his son Mark to live temporarily with the boy's maternal grandparents. When Painter remarried, two years later, he sought to get Mark back. To his surprise, the grandparents refused. To his shock the...
Her admiring view of Mencken overlooks much in his work that was malicious. That is not hard to do, considering the Gargantuan proportions of his sense of fun. It is difficult to quibble about a man who, as an agnostic, prepared himself for the possibility of Judgment Day with the...