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...official benefit of clergy. Throughout his life he had been a model of Victorian rectitude, partly to prove that a man could be moral without fearing Hell -although he said if the climate and company were right he preferred Hell to annihilation. To his scientific allies who made a fetish of X, the unknown, he had written: "If I am to talk about that of which I have no knowledge at all, I prefer the good old word God, about which there is no scientific pretence...
...through what Dr. Herman B. Snow, director at St. Lawrence, calls "the ritual of the key" to enter a building. Then, jangling a fistful of hardware, he had to repeat the ritual at the door of every ward, at every staircase and elevator. That this security fetish is an illusion is shown by St. Lawrence's experience: it never had many escapes compared with most hospitals, but now has only half as many as previously...
...embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish instilled by Mama de Beauvoir has given Simone's intellectual life unquestionable integrity, but it also makes every clash between the ideal and the actual an emotional crisis. At the bar of reality, Simone is still a one-martini girl...
...four days a week, but he loves nothing better than a serious bull session, and will do his best to join any group of students who invite him. He sits with them, his big hands playing constantly with the large square paper clip that he refers to as "my fetish." The talk does not necessarily stay on theology; Paul Tillich believes that religion is "the substance of culture and culture is the form of religion." He has long been concerned with the insights of psychiatry; Psychoanalyst Rollo May, leading U.S. exponent of "existential analysis" (TIME, Dec. 29), studied under Tillich...
...also seems unwise to push secrecy to the point where it becomes a fetish. Concealment in any part of the Armed Forces serves as precedent for general secrecy; and while national security requires that much military information be secret, zealous concealment of satellite attempts (a field, incidentally, in which we do not seem to be able to give much succor to the Soviets) fosters an atmosphere inimical to the public knowledge needed to run a democracy. If the Armed Forces stop treating much of their experimentation as mere propaganda they might avoid both premature fanfares and damaging secrecy...