Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three astronauts, representatives of the Establishment reading Genesis while spinning in space, recording scientific data for the ages to come, with faith in God and their fellow scientists, show up the puerile nihilism and obscenity, the physical and mental shabbiness of our youthful dropouts like a bright light in a dank dungeon. Any hippie, yippie, card burner or other destructive zealot who reads your article and doesn't drop in to 1) a bathtub, 2) a barber shop and 3) an employment office, must be completely devoid of imagination and vision...
...symbolism of such traditional religious postures as subservience, fatefulness, destiny, and suprarational faith begin then to seem irrelevant to our actual experience. They lose credibility, and their religious function is weakened...
...least, reflections of what they liked to think of themselves. The Post's greatest editor, George Horace Lorimer, insisted that "editors must be ordinary men"; and it was the values of ordinary men-cozy domesticity, a sense of humor, a belief in decency and common sense, a faith in free enterprise-that the magazine sought to express. It distilled an almost mythic vision of small-town America that many of its readers were still living and others were already nostalgic about. It made even sophisticates realize, with a pleasant pang, that they were partly Penrods at heart...
...emoted the role of family entertainer. Whittaker Chambers' "I Was the Witness" and Veteran Pete Martin's "I Call On" interviews with celebrities set alltime records for newsstand sales, and circulation grew to 6,000,000; but it was a lowest-common-denominator readership. Advertisers lost faith in the Post audience and moved their accounts to TV or to more modern or specialized publications...
...they develop, though, members of the sect are expected to chant for spiritual blessings, such as moral rectitude and deeper understanding of the faith. "Your desires get higher and higher," says Sandi Mytinger, 25, "and your life gets higher and higher." Ultimately, the goal of Soka Gakkai is the establishment of an earthly kingdom come -an era of world peace that will be achieved when at least one-third of mankind adopts the sect's version of true Buddhism. The movement clearly has a long...