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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally, Wolfe's grand indictment of the class members: "False, trivial, glib, dishonest, empty, without substance, lacking faith--is it any wonder that among Professor [Baker's] young men few birds sang...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

Guillen chose as examples three love poems by the 16th century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross. These poems show that the union of the soul and the body must be approached by love and faith, not by reason, the Wellesley professor said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Poet Delivers Initial Norton Lecture | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...brand of revived Fundamentalism obviously will not survive the present wave of postwar hysteria. In general, it seems to me that modern man is slowly but surely waking up to the realization that in order to move forward towards a scientific and democratic civilization he must rely on intelligent faith in himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Wise Guy's Christianity | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...silly to say St. Thomas stood for 'blind faith.' He sought to show what man can know about the existence and nature of God by reason alone, and then to show what more may be known through faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Wise Guy's Christianity | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...foot. One day a rude man of the people catches her attention because "he stood still so long with his mouth against St. Peter's foot." When he moves on. Lady Flora is impelled to kiss the saintly toe as well. Her reward, however, is not faith but syphilis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grotesque & Sublime | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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