Word: materialistic
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...complacency, and then lambasted a recent Vatican statement that Protestants could achieve church unity by returning to the Catholic fold. The issue now going to press runs a long survey of religion in non-Communist Europe based on reports of some of its 37 foreign correspondents. The general consensus: materialist, religiously indifferent Europe is ripe for evangelical missionary work...
...father's health and it was broken; they had prayed without cease for the churches, and they were empty; they had prayed for David and he was lost to them." John's personal answer is to join the Communist Party, but it is quite clear that a materialist religion will satisfy him no more than a God-directed...
...Russians do not interrupt this communion over the airways. Freed has not a sure answer. "No doubt they feel they have nothing to fear from religious propaganda," he says. "But beyond the materialist dimension there are still men's hearts and souls. No country can decree these out of existence...
Sullivan's enemies have implied at various times that he is a wild man, a scalawag, or, perhaps merely a misguided materialist. He himself has come up with at least one scheme--the project on the Charles River--that taxed the credulity of many. But, strikingly if haphazardly he represents the one element that is missing in the Cambridge and Harvard approach to redevelopment: dynamism. He has shown that officials and city planners are wrong and that something concrete can be done, if someone is willing...
...while making money proved reasonably arresting, but by now, the theme has become an overpowering bore and need no longer be written; it can be assembled from the fictioneer's cliché kit. The recurrence of the theme may prove, as some claim, a deep uneasiness in American materialist society; or it may merely prove the uneasiness (or an eye on an easy market) among American writers. The latest, 604-page redundancy by Sloan (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Wilson may also serve a purpose: to stimulate total disenchantment with the disenchantment novel...