Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cure for contemporary troubles would therefore hardly appear to lie in an attempt to revivify the Bible or reanimate the Christian revelation. The Christian heritage proved incapable of answering Bacon and Diderot. And while these men failed to provide a lasting alternative, they defined the work of any future religion. No future synthesis can simply ignore the problems raised by empirical science or temporal Utopianism. It must incorporate these elements into a new vision, making its Revelation relevant to contemporary dilemmas...
...critical tests of a successful general education program is that of an adequate course in the natural sciences. The difficulties appear to lie partly in the attitude of many scientists, who have been unable to interest themselves in the problem of teaching their subject to the non-scientist...
...cure for contemporary troubles would therefore hardly appear to lie in an attempt to revivify the Bible or reanimate the Christian revelation. The Christian heritage proved incapable of answering Bacon and Diderot. And while these men failed to provide a lasting alternative, they defined the work of any future religion. No future synthesis can simply ignore the problems raised by empirical science or temporal Utopianism. It must incorporate these elements into a new vision, making its Revelation relevant to contemporary dilemmas...
...more in mind than providing its allies with a shield against Red Communist expansion. The ultimate aim: to prove that, given security and political stability, a non-Communist Asia can simultaneously solve its economic problems and work toward improvement and independence of the individual-and thus give the lie to the Communist myth that the only answer to Asian poverty is totalitarianism...
When the closets are locked and the books are in their cartons, when moth-balls are in the drawers and roommates are leaving for Europe, when the libraries are still and the dining halls are empty, when crushed beer cans dot the riverside and old sneakers lie about the hallways, and when the rooms are empty and Harvard becomes more hollow than ever, some sounds and questions linger...