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Dapple-bearded little Philosopher C. E. M. Joad, 56, of the University of London, is familiar to British radio listeners as the wittily bumptious know-it-all of Brains Trust (BBC's recently ended version of Information Please). To bookish laymen and lecture-goers he is known as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Boy | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

In his agnostic days Joad used to be fond of saying: "When the mind becomes old and begins to decay, it becomes matted with God-webs." Joad's own mind grew God-webby as World War II grew more terrible. He began to doubt that evil was something that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Boy | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

A further sampling of France's 1,000,000 Communists showed them 64% atheistic, 17% believers, and 19% agnostic.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Believers & Dpubters | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

*No kin to Agnostic Robert G., Publicist Ralph McAllister, or Watchmaker Robert Hawley Ingersoll.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stop Saluting | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

A disturbing but kindly teacher, Agnostic Bode attracted such big classes that only the chapel would hold them. There, his long figure draped over the lectern, he would lecture with inflammatory enthusiasm. Sometimes, on fire himself, he would edge off the platform onto the top of an adjoining grand piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rebel | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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