Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when the world is desperately striving for some evidence of reason and good faith, it seems foolish to encourage this sort of thing...
...these six, four were written in 1936, apparently a crucial year for Novelist Greene's development. What gives them literary value is the clarity with which they confront the author's religious faith with the paradoxes and atrocities of reality, including a certain "drab empty forest ... where it is impossible to believe in any spiritual life, in anything outside the nature dying round...
...injunction and presidential rulings, and encourage collective bargaining by bringing the parties into the glare of a public show-cause hearing. It would also offer labor and management the chance to learn that although compromises please no one, both sides can live under them, and it might slowly restore faith in the bargaining process...
...dear friends, [these] are words of an Hungarian Communist,* words that echo the thoughts of men depraved and deranged-men who do not know truth, love, justice or faith . . . These lines . . . are taught to the youth of red-enshackled lands . . . where everybody is afraid of everybody else, where even a son fears his father and fathers fear their own blood-sons, as all become serfs and victims of the relentless god of Baal! . . . They are wild words of warning, and, unless we listen well and realize that we must counteract them by concerted, constant prayer and action, then these words...
Budapest-born (1905) Arthur Koestler, one of the best political-novelists of the last decade (Darkness at Noon), is also a stubborn, highly independent thinker-a religious skeptic whose materialism is spiced with idealistic fervor, a radical in search of something to replace his lost faith in Communism. In The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4, 1945) Koestler tried to find a workable compromise between the pure, but passive life of the sage, and the earthy, but highly active existence of the political reformer. In his new book he stabs at a more ambitious project-"an inclusive theory...