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Russell. Nor would it do when in 1927 Bertrand and Dora opened up Beacon Hill, a progressive school where children were allowed to roam the grounds naked and taught how to be good, godless creatures of the earth...
Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence--nothingness--the predicament of man, forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void--with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation--forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos...
...make this boy one of us, why not leave him in his own world?" For Dysart is the victim of a low sperm count, a Laodicean marriage, and "professional menopause" and he almost wants to preserve Strang's passion in a world he sees as otherwise dull and godless...
Twenty years ago, he published The Recognitions, a major postwar American novel that is still largely unknown and unappreciated. In nearly 1,000 pages, the then 33-year-old author took on the godless 20th century. Through his hero, a man who turned from the priesthood to become an artist and then an expert forger of old Flemish masters, Gaddis spun the platonic metaphysics of reality and imitation into exciting fiction...
...existence Harvard's function was primarily to train young men for the Protestant ministry; the University was founded in piety, and, some say, that piety lives on (it's just a little harder to find these days, having become sort of secularized). On the surface Harvard is a fairly Godless place, and President Pusey used to attract a great deal of derision by saying things about "the present low estate of religion at Harvard." Someone once asked Pusey what the single most important quality for a Harvard president was, and he answered "a belief in God," but nobody says that...