Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of it, Playwright Hart has little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden in 1952. (There were those who loved it, but it flopped.) To get over that humiliation, Playwright Hart...
Also in the realm of the moral influence of religion falls the fact that Harvard Catholics feel that atheists and agnostics are less likely than Catholics "to hold ethical opinions with which they can agree." Half the Catholics polled, however, feel that atheists and agnostics are just as likely as Catholics to "do the morally right or kind thing," and we can certainly speculate that some of this "tolerance" comes in many cases from their experience at Harvard...
...phrase "renascence," one must first note that it is really quite difficult to say that "Harvard," in the sense of Harvard students, is doing or believing or undergoing anything. Each assumption made from this random poll will be challenged by hundreds, and each analysis by a local minister will hold true for only a certain number of his congregants. Still, in some way Harvard men are more uniform than they pretend to be, and in their very refusal to be catalogued one finds a conformism to a Nietzschean standard of merciless analysis and criticism. Nevertheless, we shall attempt to analyze...
...though they admitted elsewhere that they were no longer "affiliated with it." "Liberalized" Protestants are those who still like to go to church and consider themselves Christians, while maintaining a rational, independent philosophy totally unhampered by ritualistic demands. Middle-ground Protestants, on the other hand, may feel nothing to hold them ritualistically, and may find theological demands somewhat too taxing for their reason, and, feeling no habitual church-going compulsion, prefer to switch to complete apostasy. There is also, of course, the lingering feeling that it is socially correct to be an Episcopalian or a Unitarian, although apparently the snob...
...believers felt that the ethical opinions of atheists and agnostics were quite similar to theirs, and that both groups were just as likely to do "the morally right or kind thing." Atheists and agnostics felt the same way. If religion is separated from ethics, it loses a powerful hold on the souls of man. It can, of course, be argued that if a man rejects religion but believes in a mortality which religion created, he still is a religious man, and whether or not he admits it, he still believes in God. Judaism has taught that...