Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preoccupied with pieces for the outdoors. "Sculpture is an art of the open air," he believes. "Daylight, sunlight is necessary to it. I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in or on the most beautiful building I know...
Thus the Catholic will find religion a constantly recurring topic of conversation, his friends getting the feel of his faith as they might test the temperature of the ocean in early June. But they are not prepared to swim. Their first position is the easy one of attack. They know all the old arguments and most of the new ones; the Catholic has to know more. His defense has to be alive, the natural corollary to a living faith; it must be forceful and impressive, stemming from all that his commitment means to him. His defense will not convince others...
...risks. The basic mathematics concerning loss of faith scares some, shocks others, but we mentioned the lack of finality in our figures--and especially in this particular set--due to the small numbers and also to the uncertain effect of time. If asked by some Catholic we didn't know whether he should come to Harvard we would have no ready reply--it's too individual a matter
...aspect of the response to the questionnaire. Only 31 per cent of admitted Protestants indicated belief in the immortality of the soul (defined as "the continued existence of the individual soul as a surviving entity after the end of organic life"); 4 per cent indicated that they did not know. Jews, for whom immortality is inconsequential, overwhelmingly rejected the doctrine; most Catholics accepted it (though four out of 23 denied it and two did not know). Similarly, a large number of Protestants considered Christ as not divine, but "only as a very great prophet or teacher, much as the Mohammedans...
Without experience it is impossible to know how centralized or how autonomous the program should be, how specialized or how general the individual workshops. Experiment is a necessity in this sort of venture. What has been established so far is a healthy beginning and should be continued and expanded, so that more than a privileged one eighth of a class will benefit...