Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exactly what the film means beyond "Isn't this a hell of a world" is hard to discern. Surely it points toward an assertion of freedom--man stripped bare of all sham, superstition, pride, and being forced to make decisions, and that the ways of fate and of the human psyche are unknowable and unpredictable. Yet the conclusion seems to proclaim a sort of human brotherhood that is partially alien to Satrian existentialism. On the other hand, it is quite possible the Satre views these two lonely people who find one another as asserting the same sort of freedom...
...Manhattan [TIME, March 12] will embarrass or further prejudice against religion "the modern 'enlightened' but morally sensitive man," let them conduct their own crusade. If they feel that their message is more relevant to the broader social issues of the day, and they are better able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon as Manhattan, let them come out of the editorial sanctuary and tell what they know...
...will constantly present the 'Christian message' to an entire metropolitan center. This is of course a Babylon, whose 'sins' invite the denunciations of any 'prophet.' But the question is whether the prophet is able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon, or to appreciate the virtues of such a vast conglomerate community in which all peoples and racial stocks live in comparative brotherhood...
Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, in announcing the student committee, said it would probably hold hearings next week to discern student as well as faculty opinion on the question. Richard B. Merlo '57 will head the group to be known as the Biochemical Sciences Evaluation Committee...
...superficial contradiction in the Harvard Report," the committee continues, "in including religious ideals among those to be considered in a liberal education and at the same time opposing religious instruction is easily dissolved. Throughout it is apparent that the Report grapples with the largest problem of leading men to discern and chose good without specifying what the good is. There is no denial of the need for the discussion of religious thought in an education which teaches men to evaluate...