Word: atheist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost his job and had to take what he could get. Floyd grew up in respectable but shaming poverty. The family moved restlessly, finally settled in Davenport, Iowa. Bright, delicate, sensitive Floyd was good at school, read everything he could lay hands on. He was soon calling himself an Atheist; at 16 he joined the Socialist Party. He wrote poems at such an alarming rate that he realized it was a bad habit; what chiefly disgusted him was that his verses were so sentimental and God-conscious. College being out of the question, when Floyd finished school he went...
...more poetical ideas of life and death, knowing that his readers will not be struggling, or disagreeing with his politics or religion, and so disposing with dogmas both he and his readers can concentrate on poetry," the lecturer continued. He showed that Shelley, instead of being an 'orthodox' atheist, postulated a religion of his own, which made for obscurity, immaturity, and didacticism in his poetry. As for his politics and philosophy, Shelley "never escaped from the teaching of Godwin, and I have no doubt Mrs. Shelley was also too much of a 'heavyweight!' Shelley was, in fact, a prig...
...Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter. Julian's father falls foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John...
What is Benito Mussolini today? He has been a Socialist, atheist, terrorist- but may he not have changed? Last week, in an amazing contribution to the Enddopedia Italiana, Signor Mussolini tried to define the "Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism." succeeded in defining himself, exposing some of his innermost mental processes. Excerpts: Peace. "Above all," wrote 77 Duce, "Fascism does not believe in the possibility or advisability of perpetual peace. It therefore rejects pacifism. . . . Only war leads to the maximum tension of all human energies and sets the seal of nobility on people who have the virtue to face...
...Michigan in Wilmette, Ill. This will serve the Baha'i's in the western world?some 3,000 believers. Less pretentious but serving some 2,000,000 communicants are the three Eastern temples, at Haifa and Akka in Palestine, Ishquabad in Turkestan (this one was lately seized by the atheist Soviets...