Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith Albee--Sally O'Neil in "Jazz Heaven...
According to the plans outlined, the new movement, in which many prominent men, such as Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard, are interested, is basically a remodelling of the teachings of Christ so that they will fit in with present-day beliefs. Such "medieval superstitions" as Heaven and Hell are entirely at variance with the modern trend of a philosophy built on science. While the leaders of the movement express no intention to undervaluate the Bible, a literal interpretation of the doctrines it expresses are to them impossible. Rather, they prefer to regard the Old and New Testaments as an allegory...
...proposing that we substitute the inspiring power of the vision of an ideal humanity for fear of hell and hope of heaven as a driving power in the life of men; and that God within--the unifying element which drives men to unity in a brotherly world--replace a medieval, imperial deity who makes irrational demands on his human subjects and savagely punishes or extravagantly rewards those who anger or please him; who looks upon this world and its happiness as immaterial or evil, centering all interest on a supposed life after death...
Twenty atrocious murders in a few weeks, ten more slashings have reduced the citizens to a state of mind in which respectable women were to be seen in Lutheran Churches screaming that Satan again walks the Earth, imploring Heaven's protection. For several weeks Dusseldorf schoolchildren have been toddling to kindergarten or walking fearfully to gymnasium (high school) accompanied by armed posses or riding in busses guarded by policemen with cocked Mauser pistols Entirely baffled, the Dusseldorf police recently sent for Berlin detectives whose methods-typical of the deepest dyed Austro-German psychiatric and psychoanalytical school-have been scaring...
...industry's revenue. He founded Fox News and Fox Educational Department. In 1915 he opened the first Fox studio in Hollywood. _ It was Mr. Sheehan who boomed Fox Films from a production standpoint, his first great success being What Price Glory? Other Fox-Sheehan successes included Seventh Heaven, Four Sons, Street Angel. Among cinemactors discovered by Mr. Sheehan are Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Victor McLaglen...