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Word: agnosticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Jewison's The Russians Are Coming, Keith began a new career as a deadpan comedian. Now, teamed with Bridges, he gives the liveliest performance of his career as an agnostic Catholic and whoremaster-repentant whose right hand has not consulted his left for 40 years. The pro and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarnished Cherub | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reason he suggests-that the assumption is so cosmic that it may sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted": we aren't here to accept or reject: we're here to be amused. The more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

In a 1961 story called Prometheus by Philip José Farmer, the hero, an intergalactic missionary named Father John Carmody, visits a planet where the inhabitants are only dimly aware that they have souls at all. He then prcceeds to instruct them, in one breathtaking passage, in the basic principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Theology: Those Gods from Outer Space | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

With similar logic he puts down Somerset Maugham, not for slickness but for lacking a religious sense. Maugham, he writes, is an agnostic "forced to minimize-pain, vice, the importance of his fellowmen. He cannot believe in a God who punishes and he cannot therefore believe in the importance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Studies in Black and Grey | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

His third suggestion, the Over powering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reason he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it may sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted": we aren't here to accept or reject; we're here to be amused. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

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