Word: chardin
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...wrote the main story. "He's funny and engaging, a person of tremendous charm, great personal presence and far-ranging knowledge. He sometimes communicates the feeling that others don't meet his standards." Stengel delved into the work of controversial Roman Catholic Paleontologist-The ologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose stress on the importance of mankind gave Cuomo a rationale in his quest for social justice. When Cuomo traveled to Stengel's alma mater, Princeton University, to make an address, the writer tagged along. "People were hanging off the rafters to get a look at him," says Stengel...
Cuomo's world view has also been shaped by the philosophy of the French Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose writings were suppressed by the church until after his death in 1955. Until the early 1960s, Cuomo accepted the teaching of the priests at St. John's that life was a moral obstacle course, a treacherous interval between birth and eternity. But in the '60s, Cuomo says, he was liberated by the discovery of Teilhard's Divine Milieu (a book he has "dipped into 100 times"), in which the Jesuit propounded the philosophy that God made...
Cuomo is not trendy. As the Governor himself proudly acknowledges in his recently published and thoughtful Diaries, he takes his Roman Catholicism, his family and his responsibilities to society very seriously. He has been deeply influenced by the thought of Jesuit Philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His son Andrew, 26, is one of his closest aides. For a politician, Cuomo displays unusual ambivalence, even anguish, about some issues. Yet he can show hard-edged political courage as well. He has twice vetoed bills to re-establish the death penalty, even though a large majority of New Yorkers say they want...
...although Gris' work has its avant-garde credentials, it can now be seen as he probably wanted it to be: as the extension, into a modern idiom (for cubism was, to him, a kind of ultimate language) of the tradition of calm, cerebrative painting that flowed from Chardin through Seurat, and whose essential subject was still life...
Stephen Jay Gould appears to accept the popular charge that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was involved in the conspiracy behind the Piltdown man forgery. Gould's accusation, however, has not been accepted by experts. J.S. Weiner, who first uncovered the hoax and then the hoaxer, dismissed Gould's account as worthless. British Scholar Kenneth Oakley, who originally supported Gould's contention that Teilhard faked the Piltdown fossil as part of a youthful prank, later changed his mind. After being shown evidence that contradicted Gould, Oakley declared that the basis of Gould's charge against Teilhard...