Word: godless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...
...dethrone reason; great terror, in a brave man or a cringer, can turn loose adrenal energies which must exhaust themselves in outrage and spoliation. It would be untrue to describe as a form of religious madness, even in religious India, a madness which operates also with equal fury among godless men. But where deep religiousness is present it is inevitably used, inevitably adds its own peculiar intensity...
Your reciprocal pat on the pagan back of the godless editor of McCall's Magazine [TIME, Jan. 6] seems to be a race to see who can be the most daring, the boldest, and the most shocking to moral standards, Christian conduct, and American tradition...
...only jarring note came in Boston, where Russia's Nikolai Bassov coldly demanded a plebiscite of U.N.'s prospective hosts. Obviously he had not forgotten last spring's outburst by a Massachusetts judge against "godless Russia." But Bostonians replied to a radio appeal with a 100-to-1 vote welcoming...
...belief of greying, sad-faced Robert Harold Scott, 57, is deep and abiding. Its single tenet: there is no God. For five years godless Robert Scott pestered San Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...