Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blessed land of educational curricula a number of authors and matters under the pretext that they are specifically religious, and therefore not 'classical,' though they matter essentially to the common treasure of culture. The writings of the Fathers of the Church are an integral part of the humanities as well as, or more than, those of the Elizabethan dramatists." The traditional classical concept of the humanities is both narrow and provincial, for today's humanities must reach beyond the Western world to embrace-just as does Christianity-the total human experience. "Our watchword should be enlargement, Christian...
Indeed, said Jesuit John Courtney Murray, "the first church-related school [founded by Origen in the 3rd century] came into being in answer to an inner need of the human spirit as it was caught in the clashing encounter between Christianity and all the knowledge symbolized by the Alexandrian Museum. This encounter is permanently joined, for 'the Museum' is a permanent institution, and so too is the Church . . . What the human spirit endowed with Christian faith permanently needs is that these two knowledges should be related in a universe of intellectual order . . . The Christian school therefore undertakes...
...look at the total human drama," said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "we can find no conclusion within it but only the perplexing development of both good and evil possibilities. History most surely points beyond itself for the completion of its meanings and these completions can only be apprehended by faith rather than by reason. This is why the Biblical-Hebraic faith must remain the bearer of the religious content of our culture. The faith of the Bible seeks to penetrate the mysteries and meanings of life above and beyond the rational intelligibilities. It is not for this reason 'otherworldly...
...Harum and Tugboat Annie, Ma is "the conscience of her community" and trusts folks "till that trust is violated." Soap operaddicts feel that her show is a pleasant extension of the ancient art of storytelling, and offers helpful hints to daily living. Her detractors find it tired bilge, intensifying human frustration in its calculated attempts to bring temporary relief by dredging emotional sewers...
...develop over great periods of time. Our critics are people who do not stay with us." Although key telegrams are still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne insists that cliffhanging is not "the appeal of our story." "Our characters are lovable, often funny human beings-family friends." But in accordance with the canons of daytime serials, Ma is carefully constructed to flatter the female ego. Says Actress Payne: "Everyone knows more than Ma does...