Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slaughter. As co-chairman of last year's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic for us -our little pepper-upper...
...rise of what McGuire calls the Monstrous State, which "must enforce order when we no longer discipline ourselves." But nationalism only bloodily compounded the disorder in the Western World. Here was the great moral vacuum which Karl Marx sought to fill with his murky and monstrous new faith...
...Socrates"), he wanted to whisk away his students' prejudices. Unlike Socrates, he felt that if their convictions vanished too, there was little he could do about it. He supplied no new doctrines to take the place of the ones he destroyed, gave his students no Cohen-made faith. His job as he saw it was to train "thinkers rather than . . . disciples...
When Morris Cohen resigned from C.C.N.Y. in 1938, he hoped to spend the last years of his life writing down all that he had learned on his journey. Though he wrote several books (Faith of a Liberal, A Preface to Logic, etc.), he never felt he had quite finished his task. Until his death, he was tortured by the books still unwritten, "haunted by the things . . . left unsaid." Actually, he knew that his books, like his teaching, would probably provide the world with no pat solutions. They could only underline his constant faith in "keeping the windows open...
...Spanish Protestant, he said, "cannot hold official position in the government, nor can he rise to officer's rank in the army unless he conceals his religious beliefs. He is not allowed to practice his faith in public. The chapel he attends must not display any exterior evidence that it is a place of worship. It cannot advertise its existence-not even with a bulletin board. It cannot be listed in the public directories." According to Bigart, a Protestant clergyman "suffers much the same type of persecution as the Roman Catholic clergy endure in Communist Hungary," although he noted...