Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that hero gone, a few intellectuals like Historian Russell Kirk have tried to rehabilitate the conservative mind. Others have set to work redefining liberalism. Critic Lionel Trilling attacked the liberal idea that the only true reality is "material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant." It was this idea that kept so many liberals at perpetual war with respectable society, that led them to exalt Theodore Dreiser for his apparent social conscience and to forgive that conscience when he joined the Communist Party. "This is the liberal criticism," said Trilling, "which establishes the social responsibility of the writer...
...churchmen were equally aware of how sharply religion's role has been limited by the Communists. Said the Rev. Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, head of the National Council's Department of International Affairs: "It's pathetic that the only role religion can play here is to help relieve the drudgery of life for the people from...
Albert B. Levin--Kirkland House; Student Council, Vice-President-President; P.B.H. Social Service Committee; Phi Beta Kappa; Signet Society; Junior Usher; Kirk-Comm...
...Kirk, on the other hand, maintained that there has been more toleration in times of certitude, more liberty when certain principles have been widely accepted. He felt that uncertainty and a clashing of views led to persecution...
...Kirk also said that men of conviction, men courageous enough to express their views, will be needed to combat the "very real danger of the degradation of the democratic dogma." He further criticized the tendency of the student in becoming a mere "passive recipient of canned knowledge...