Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real highlight in modern journalism...
Sharpest observations on contemporary convert-making come, as might be expected, from the most famed proselytizer of all, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Modern converts, he writes, unlike those of past generations, have nothing to be converted from ("It is no longer Protestantism from which we convert souls; it is confusionism...
Harper's had changed printers and adopted a larger (TIME-sized) format, to cut the cost of production; the old printer, figuring that few modern presses could handle the outdated Harper's page, had demanded a 27% price hike...
...beauty of past forms, an organic response to the moral order that produced them. Waugh is a lover of tradition and hierarchy. In a world which denies hierarchy in the name of equality and tradition in the name of progress, Waugh is a lonely and an angry man. The modern world revolts him. He can see little in civilization that compensates for the chaos of the modern mind or the debasement of modern life...
...Flytes of Brideshead were a doomed family. They were Catholics in an alien community. The Flytes' Catholicism could not save them from a doom enjoined by the interaction of their characters on one another and the modern world. But it could save them from dissolution in their doom. That was the real meaning of Brideshead Revisited-that Catholicism was the one force that could still give order and unity to fragmented lives...