Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A myth of security has supplemented the myth of success, according to the University Professor, and the religious resurgence must resist the "lure of security" if it is to provide the ability to ask the "radical question of meaning."
"Anxiety about the human situation" has produced the religious resurgence since the war, Tillich asserted. Contemporary man is experiencing a shocked awakening to the discovery that principles concerning "meaning of being" have disintegrated.
An even more serious objection to the "perspective theory emerges from the efforts of psychologists to study the impact of the college on student beliefs and values. Whereas college may well make students verbally conscious of new areas of choice, only a handful of potent" colleges actually induce the student...
His own The Lonely Crowd, Riesman said, falls into the romantic category, placing its emphasis on specific social strata in this country. The book takes the U.S. as the chief exemplar of post-industrial society and seeks to assess the meaning of this situation for individuals and for institutions.
And finally, on current critical ballyhoo about the South as a source of symbol and meaning: "Tommyrot. You can say Faulkner, but not really. The only really regional writer in the South was the creator of Br'er Rabbit."