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...insult. This is not a social and political outrage but something even more repulsive-a lack of consideration." Nowadays, he wrote, Protestantism is not even a faith, "not a positive doctrine but a negative one. It is not an attempt at moral, spiritual or religious reform, nor an individualist explanation of the Gospel. Today Protestantism has lost all doctrinal basis and has argued itself into radical irrationalism...
...does well to attract its students from 152 colleges and 15 foreign countries. The myth about Yale's "policy approach" probably tends to appeal to a certain type of student--one interested in social, as well as legal, values. Harvard, it is claimed, is made to order for the individualist, the student who is interested in broadening his intellectual capacity through contact with a varied environments. Since Yale has somewhat de-emphasized its policy approach, however, and both schools offer loans or scholarships to about 23 percent of their total enrollments, the two student bodies are probably more alike...
Hinton's long-absent children, Joan, 33, and William, 35, made congressional-committee headlines as proCommunists (TIME, Aug. 9), the school caught a whiff of bad publicity. But, respected and liked in her Vermont community, Rugged Individualist Hinton attracted the children of some of the nation's top professional and amateur educators (e.g., High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, former Ford Foundation President Paul G. Hoffman, Pundit Marquis Childs), and unendowed Putney prospered...
...produced radically new churches in the U.S., and André Girard's stained glass for a chapel at Palo Alto, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25) is rich in ideas. The Vatican has been called, with good reason, a citadel of conservatism in art, yet it has commissioned a rugged individualist named Giacomo Manzu to design a new door for St. Peter...
Riesman believes in individualism as a goal; but he does not believe that the U.S. today is an individualist society in the 19th century sense...