Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modern man . . . staggers between belief and disbelief, revolt and humility, anarchy and obedience. . . . The people of our age are restless, excitable and fatigued. . . . Many fall into despair and cast themselves of their own will into that post-mortem darkness. . . . [Modern man], in his equality with God, either becomes a tyrant or joins the army of the despairing and dying...
...Modern man wants only to live and to let live, but it is very often because of this that he takes his life...
...golden middle way.' This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form of revolution . . . whence the high comedy of the golden middle path...
...Thomas Masaryk's first book, printed in German in 1881, was an examination of the causes of "suicide as a mass phenomenon." He later put some of the material into a collection of essays called Modern Man and Religion...
...suggests that greener fields lie ahead. If a dozen students will gladly give an hour or so a week to learn the finer points of bridge from a more proficient neighbor, then it is quite likely that other groups would gather for a competently directed discussion of existentialism or modern art. Resident professors and tutors could again mix with students on the informal House level. A fully developed program would do much to bring the long-dormant House plan to life again...