Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edward D. Stone (TIME, March 31, 1958). For the university's med students, who can now fulfill their degree requirements without commuting to another campus, the center is an unqualified blessing. But in San Francisco medical circles, the center is an object of much discussion and no little concern...
...Would it be fair to say that the opposite has occurred: that your moral concern has grown more intense in the absence of any assurance of God's existence or of an after life...
...scant majority do feel that their "moral concern has grown more intense in the absence of any assurance of God's existence or of an after-life." However, the attitude of the atheist-agnostic group toward undertaking the risks of world government was the same as for the undergraduates as a whole--evenly divided almost exactly--except that, out of the 30 people who responded that they were indifferent to the whole issue, ten were agnostics and one an atheist! On one of the most crucial questions of the twentieth century, it appears, the "enlightened skeptic" exceeds his believing brethren...
...part of the latter group of the nuclear holocaust such a conflict would almost certainly entail--as well as a greater reluctance to identify the survival of a North American nation-state with the good of higher culture everywhere and for all time. If so, a deeper moral concern with the fate of this world may be adumbrated here--as well as a strikingly universal sense of direct ethical responsibility...
...have surrendered the belief in heaven and in the resurrection of the dead--but nevertheless, no concern is to the non-believer more vital, urgent, and intimate than that with vitam venturi saeculi--the life of the world to come