Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic primarily experiences indifference. He may be moved at times by some of the amazing statements various of the faculty seem compelled to make; but these he can answer, if only to himself. As always it is more baffling to cope with the indifference, for it assumes a prior judgment; it rests on an implied assumption that Catholicism is by nature phony; that Catholicism is patronizing, and assumes the air of a father who won't tell the child there is no Santa Claus. Catholics are certainly not despised, but in general they are respected only despite their Catholicism...
...attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need in our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith." In his 1957 address, President Pusey disavowed any tie between faith, and sectarianism in the University: "In my judgment the people who are speaking for religion in universities today should not be understood as speaking in favor of a particular church. They are not asking for a special privilege...
...each seminar should be a little gen. ed. course, but it does mean that initial over-specialization may lead freshmen to ignore the momentous questions latent in any study. A seminar in history, for example, offers a wonderful opportunity to work by case study to the problems of moral judgment, freedom and determinism, while a seminar in sun spots, say, might be valuable not only for its intrinsic material but as an introduction to scientific method and philosophy. It is to be hoped that the scholars who conduct specialized seminars will remember that the fundamental task of freshmen seminars...
...first major religion which claimed so purely cognitive an activity as theologizing as one of its most essential modes, and concentrated on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man has the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a relentless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of literal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith...
...just arrived from two sexless years in Iceland. "Do you think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that her bridegroom is not slouching around her boudoir "for the wrong reason," Debbie decrees that there will be no beddingdown together for one month. The spurned husband takes...