Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagine the furor if a group of Roman Catholic bishops should subject a Protestant candidate to a formal questioning of matters concerning his faith! The howl would be heard from Washington to Rome...
...have a new generation that we call 'the beat generation,'" David Egger suddenly said. "They are young people, many of them students, who are loafing around, not working. They don't believe in anything. They have lost faith in the power of reason...
Tight Pants. But such is the faith of British rock 'n' rollers-to say nothing of British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned...
...affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs, swimming races, and a nighttime series of assignations with Brenda. The affair ends badly for everyone, with Brenda ravished, her mother prostrated, her brother a musclebound failure in business, and her father writing gamely: "You have to have faith in your children like in a Business or any serious undertaking and there is nothing that is so bad that we can't forgive especially when Our own flesh and blood is involved...
This patched up Hellenism, but it could not revitalize it spiritually. Into the deserted streets of the spirit crept Stoicism and Epicureanism, cool in faith, cooler in comfort. Astrology was in vogue together with "archaism," an aping of the past for the sake of novelty. The death of Hellenism in the fall of the Roman Empire was not caused by a "triumph of religion and barbarism," says Toynbee, taking issue with Gibbon. As Toynbee sees it, Christianity did not put the torch to the classic world; it lit one for it in the sightless dark...