Word: materialistic
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Gandhi held that materialism is sin. Nehru demurred: he is a materialist himself. They disagreed on Socialism: the Mahatma considered its doctrine based on the "belief in the essential selfishness of human nature." Nehru felt the beauty of Gandhi's ethics, but refused to accept the religious beliefs on which the ethics were based. Nehru declared himself "repeatedly angry" with Gandhi's emphasis on religion and mysticism...
...Civilized Barbarian. Sinclair Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams...
...enticing fictional blubber-ball may never suspect that it is dialectical bear bait until the later pages, where an aged anga-kok (medicine man) sums up his people's primitive philosophy, and makes it sound as up-to-date as a modern university lecture by a materialist philosopher...
...Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above the" terrors and sor rows of modern life as well as above...
...planted in Catholic publishing houses . . . The church is deprived of the last remnants of its property . . . Almost all church schools have been wiped out, and those which remain are painfully insecure . . . Teachers of religion are tested ideologically and are given directives on how to teach religion in the materialist spirit...