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Holyoke served the second longest term of any president in Harvard’s history—from 1737 to 1769—and was famous on campus for defending the rational beliefs of what contemporary religious revivalists called “Godless Harvard,” according to Stephen Shoemaker, who is the teaching fellow for Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and Its Presidents...
Despite Harvard’s godless reputation, Saito says he has embraced faith at school. After graduating from a nominally Christian high school, Saito says he was tired of just being told to believe things—he wanted to explore. “I ended up feeling most comfortable at the place I was most afraid to enter: Hillel,” says Saito...
...after its blood-drenched flirtation with fascism and communism, Europe distrusts such certainty. Remember: Margaret Thatcher, another conviction politician, was hated--really, truly hated--by half of Britain. Bush is religiously devout, and that too calls up troubling spirits from Europe's vasty deep. Not all Europeans are godless heathens nor all Americans washed in the blood of the Lamb. But in European memory, religious fervor has often been a source of bitter communal strife--think of Ireland and the Balkans. Bush is prepared to use force to advance his political goals. But after the carnage of what might...
...value of work. By the 1960s, Bell argued, "the cultural justification of capitalism [had] become hedonism, the idea of pleasure as a way of life." This magazine agreed. In a 1969 cover story titled "California: A State of Excitement," TIME reported that, as most Americans saw it, "the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about ... 'I have seen the future,' says the newly returned visitor to California, 'and it plays...
...capacity, Nash returned to the front just after the battle of Passchendaele, where the long bombardment had left a wilderness of slime and corpses. "The rain drives on, the stinking mud becomes more evilly yellow, the shell holes fill up with green white water ... O it is unspeakable, Godless, hopeless," he wrote, traumatized but still making color notes. His sketches formed the basis of paintings like We Are Making a New World (1918). The sun sends searchlight beams through clouds the color of dried blood, illuminating blasted trees and pitted khaki sludge. In The Menin Road (1919) Nash depicts...