Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shiny exterior, always seem formidable. Democracies seem to stumble and falter; they advertise their differences and always seem vulnerable. But history has demonstrated that democracies are usually stronger and despotisms are always more vulnerable than they appear. For example, it is impossible for Communist nations to develop into modern industrial states without a large degree of education. But minds so educated also penetrate the fallacies of Marxism and increasingly resist conformity. Also, there are increasing demands on the part of the subject peoples for more consumer goods, for more of the fruits of their labor...
...function of modern Protestantism is to give men the ultimate basis for criticism of the society which surrounds him, Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, asserted last night...
...attributed the awakening to the abolition of the supernatural sphere in the consciousness of modern man, to the individual's loss of identity in modern society, and to the belief in perfectibility in all realms of life...
...dimension of depth" has been lost, as the vertical dimensions of death and eternal life have been removed from human consciousness. In conquering the finite, industrial society has imprisoned modern man in a "prison of finitude," Tillich declared...
Following Tillich's remarks, Robert N. Bellah '48, lecturer on Social Relations and on World Religions, agreed that the past century has seen a modern major cultural crisis, citing as evidence a basic questioning of values with overtones of nihilism...