Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer the body as well as the soul. In October 1953, the Church of England appointed a 28-man commission of ministers and medical men "to consider the theological, medical, psychological and pastoral aspects of 'Divine Healing.' " Last week the report was out. Its gist: the hope and faith religion can give provide a valuable basis for recovery, but barring the rare miracle, they are no substitute for pills and scalpels...
...more significant difficulty: "the advance of secularization." Despite academically polite language, Pusey took a sharply critical look at this "way of life which . . . proceeds deliberately without concern for religion." So great have been the successes of secularism that it "has itself become a faith and raised a hope that man can through his own efforts-without God-solve all the remaining problems which stand between him and a secular paradise on earth...
...Most Important. But it does matter, Pusey insists. The most important questions are not the secular ones, but "the questions which religion answers for her believers by supplying meaning to life, by kindling hope, and by giving through faith in God a basis for ethical behavior...
When a Teamsters' strike shut off circulation of the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer and the nearby Camden Courier-Post, all three managements decided to get out their papers anyway, and hope the customers would come to them. Last week, as the strike entered its third week, the customers were still coming in droves. Long lines patiently queued up all day in the lobbies of the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer in downtown Philadelphia. In Camden, just across the Delaware River, traffic jammed bumper to bumper around the Courier-Post's building to buy copies from vendors, who have included...
...council and forced to help doom their own people. They had to deliver a certain quota of slave laborers, and so it was agents of the council itself who fingered the victims. Another council-the Thirteen-came into being. Its job was to tie off the last artery of hope, the flow of smuggled goods from somewhere outside hell. The Thirteen hoped to buy time from the Nazis, and many a Jew hoped to buy time from the Thirteen. Corruption at the top was symbolized by a party given by one of the Thirteen for Gestapo officers; it cost...