Word: faith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus far the demands have evoked no formal response. Nor are they likely to. More traditional churchmen consider spiritualism an outright violation of the Biblical injunctions against the occult. If a Christian seeks from spiritualism what he cannot find in his own faith, warns an article in the Anglican quarterly, Modern Churchman, he is not "far from the sin of Lucifer-the sin of pride." Nonetheless, Stockwood claims that his pieces in the Times produced hundreds of letters from believers who are convinced that they too have had ghostly visitors...
Behind their faith that dreams produced superior art, some Romantics pursued a corollary faith: that opium produced superior dreams. In a gracefully written, witty survey, British Scholar Alethea Hayter skeptically checks out a few case histories...
...single generation." His motto: "Think of the Generation Yet Unborn-Let's Keep Them That Way." The trouble now, argues Hoppe, is that "we all worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills, but was intrigued by an experimental pill for males that had only one drawback: it caused men's eyeballs to turn red if they drank alcohol. "I mean, there you are, an attractive young lady. You walk into a cocktail party crowded with handsome young...
...stylistically as spare as anything Matisse ever contrived, humanistically as moving as Rembrandt's Peter. Weighed down with the keys of the church he was charged to found, the guilt of his denials etched in his face, this Romanesque Peter creates an image that was born of faith but survives in beauty...
...gravely so that In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel seems more deserving of a coroner's report than a review. Nonetheless, trust in the eventual recovery of America's greatest living dramatist must be retained, even if it resembles St. Paul's definition of faith: "The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...