Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walled village hut in a remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns five villages and combines the brutality of Simon Legree with the buffoonery of Captain Hook. Readers will have to remind themselves from time to time that all this is happening in the 20th century...
Elliott should provide much of the excitement tomorrow, especially in the mile, where he and Mark Mullin of Harvard should hook up in a scorching battle. The Australian holds the world record in the mile at 3:54.5, and his best clockings for the 880 and two-mile are 1:47.3 and 8:37.6. This year, he won the 880 and the mile in the Oxford-Cambridge dual meet...
...Hook repeats the familiar argument that in actual operation in this world, religious groups have always sought "to make of God an instrument of national policy," and he cites the familiar examples of clerics, on opposite sides of a war, invoking God's blessing for their troops or preaching obedience, for instance, to the Nazi leaders in World War II. Actually, of course, this may prove no more than the fact that philosophers, appealing to their god-Logic-also supported national regimes, including the Nazi and the Communist tyrannies...
Politics of Despair. Hook sees religion as an interpretation of life that seeks to explain and provide consolation for otherwise meaningless suffering, and as such he is willing to tolerate it. In the case of personal beliefs, justified to the individual in the way that love justifies itself, Hook suspends rational criticism. That is the individual's own business. The crux of Hook's position is the question: Where does man's moral sense come from? Hook's rigidly pragmatic answer: practical experience leads to a set of rules that men later attribute to a divine...
...live morally without some reference to the supernatural? A great many philosophers have found mischief or disaster in man's relying only on man. Not so, Hook. He is sure that man can live without searching for meaning in mystery, without seeking to explain the inexplicable, and that he can achieve glory in the attempt. "We need not repine that we are not gods or children of gods," Hook declares. "The politics of despair, the philosophy of magical idealism and the theology of consolation forget that although we are not gods, we still can act like...