Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part of it lay in Western civilization's failure-in & out of Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that could be observed and recorded. If the West did not observe, record and act upon the evidence, the West would be deader than Rienzi...
Eternity & Bread. The obstacles had seemed towering. There was the Vatican, raised in immovable majesty above men and nations, a neighbor to eternity. There was the ancient land which had seen the works of Roman reason and Christian faith. There was the echo-petrified and arrested in time-of the world's greatest spirits, which made even simple 20th Century peasants somehow contemporary and kin to Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yet a band of conspirators, whose faith was a tenth as old as the simple stone cross in a village church, could capture these works and values-capture...
...would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with an intensity never before attempted in films. At a time when many people have regained their faith in war under certain conditions and in free enterprise under any conditions whatever, he has ventured to insist, as bitterly as he knows how, that there are considerable elements of criminality implicit in both...
...people are willing to spread their philanthrophy to the support of an undenominational school, Provost Buck has pointed out, when they can just as easily donate to a seminary of their own faith. For that reason, 130 years of Divinity School finance have been years of relatively meagre accessions...
...vociferous alumni element has recently been proposing, in the pages of the Alumni Bulletin, that the School be converted to Humanism--faith in man substituted for faith in God. Aside from theoretical merit or demerit of such a proposal, it is legally blocked by the School's constitution, which definitely specifies that the School be undenominational...