Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern churches and synagogues are largely to blame for this "eclipse of God," Cox continued. "They have become acolytes of the status quo, and failed to provide the painful tension between the 'not yet' and the world around them." Cox said it is this tension which is the source of religious vision. When the tension fades, God dies...
Serious Spontaneity. Hals's spontaneity has appealed to modern artists. Van Gogh praised "his way of stating the subject right away at one sweep." Manet hailed Hals's ability "to set down, at the first stroke, what one sees." Even the U.S. abstract expressionists found justification for their pure play of paint in Hals's practice of working without preliminary drawings...
...grey, inhibited lot. "They do not have the ambition to participate in history and to shape the future. Their state of mind is marked by a vast indifference to big issues, and there is a feeling that they are incompetent to do much about the big issues." Modern men, Lippmann was led to conclude, "are predominantly isolationist...
Students cannot major in religion and must take the subject as an elective-but the courses are highly popular nonetheless. The Stanford emphasis is strongly contemporary. Brown teaches one course on modern theology on the work of Barth, Tillich, Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr, another on Christian ethics that ranges from sexual problems-to political responsibility. Novak traces the development of 20th century Catholic theology and literature, has gained his greatest student following with a course that explores the practical consequences of commitments to faith and atheism...
...Modern transportation, cheaper power and an auto-borne labor force have largely freed industry from its old need for locations close to mines, markets or seaports. However it strikes consumers Massachusetts' new sales tax is helping the state to win back industry because it holds the promise of lower property taxes. Illinois has taken to needling New York City (see cut). Said one recent ad: "We figure New York will probably have a typhoon next week," and it goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running...