Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which "de Lawd," wanting to provide "firmament" for the custard at a celestial fish fry, makes too much, has to create the Earth as a place to "dreen it off." Spectators were thrilled at the Battle of Jericho, titillated by the sins of Babylon, touched by the implicit faith of Moses. The excellent Hall Johnson spirituals drew long volleys of applause. But far surpassing the lay reaction was that of Churchmen. Many a preacher made headlines by declaring the show to be a symbol of nothing less than a Revival of the Faith. Parishioners were urged from the pulpit...
...hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned maidens and the animal kingdom, he sets out upon the mighty, storm-tossed waters...
Died. Arthur Somers Roche, 51, author of popular fiction (Uneasy Street, Find the Woman, The Great Abduction, etc., etc.); of heart disease; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In 1921 Arkansas' Governor Thomas C. McRae declared a holiday on the publication day of The Day of Faith, a book describing what would happen if everyone simultaneously agreed: "My neighbor is perfect...
...rich certainly works in most audiences in the country. It is the stuff of demagoguery. For that reason Dr. Dewey can get away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher in the United States thinks sloppily, we can all join Dr. Townsend, who says of those who have spent their lives studying the economic system that they know "no more about it than...
...preservation and cannot tolerate disagreement supported by its own funds there remains a valuable place to be filled by the private university. Unless one rigid set of dogma is to be adopted as orthodox, heresies of every description should be permitted and even encouraged. Until all faith in liberal institutions has been destroyed one can believe that, especially in an intelligent university community, pernicious or fantastic doctrines will succumb to the force of logic. Certainly well defended views need not fear attack...