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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julian Huxley's "New-Time Religion" [Dec. 7] will have to wait for our grandchildren. As existing religions gained their momentum in an age of ignorance, they still flourish in an age of misinformation. We live in our own little worlds of delusion, content with our processes of reasoning, which only consist of finding arguments for believing our own notions of truth. Huxley's New-Time Religion offers no heavenly crown, or elated promises of a glorious hereafter. His is but a religion of the real world, a religion where the individual would be free from the spiritual...
School Segregation: The Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregation was an "affirmation and clarification of the essential liberties and the abiding principles by which America must live...
...menace. To Police Captain Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, often called "the richest cop in the world," he was fair game in the Chicago guerrilla war. But Roger got along until Matt Kolb was murdered by Capone bullets (Capone sent a $100 wreath to the funeral). After that, Touhy began to live in heavily armed fear, hired guards to protect his suburban home...
...barren place surrounded by the lush abundance of California's San Joaquin Valley live the 300 Negro men, women and children of Teviston. Most of the family heads went to the valley from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas some 20 years ago as migrant farm workers, pinched their dollars, and with earnest pride bought their own land on a sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...