Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squashed Amendments. In two days of debate, only a few Democrats rose to tackle the real meaning of the amendments in the light of global necessity. One was Texas' George Mahon, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the House's ablest military specialist. While his fellow Democrats...
The Most Important. But it does matter, Pusey insists. The most important questions are not the secular ones, but "the questions which religion answers for her believers by supplying meaning to life, by kindling hope, and by giving through faith in God a basis for ethical behavior."
Something Done. Last week Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek echoed Munñoz' thesis in a letter to Ike. The language was that of diplomacy, but the meaning was plain: "The widespread reaction of aversion on the part of the governments and of public opinion in the very...
The idea of man in motion grips the two most talked-about literary movements of the late '50s. Britain's Angry Young Men fret about social mobility, the harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a...
Pusey stated that the role of a secular university is to "help her sons ask the right questions--and all the questions." He criticized secularism for not asking "the questions which are of most importance to us all," and asserted that religion, by answering these questions supplies meaning to life...