Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Persuasive Fulton Sheen would like to introduce modern man to God by way of St. Thomas Aquinas' famed five proofs from reason of God's existence, but he feels that many a harassed, scatterbrained modern man may be "too confused to grasp them." So Author Sheen begins his book where the readers of self-improvement volumes seem to feel most at home: the realm of psychology. "If the modern soul," he writes, "wants to begin its quest for peace with its psychology instead of with our own metaphysics, we will begin with psychology ... If the modern man wants...
...major point at issue between Monsignor Sheen and much of modern psychiatry is the subject of guilt. The denial of personal sin, he holds, has done more to keep man from God, and to disintegrate society, than any other single factor. Psychiatrists are enemies of man, Sheen says, whenever they view the sense of guilt as an undesirable symptom and try to get rid of it by convincing the patient either 1) that he was not responsible for his sinful actions, or 2) that such actions are really healthy and normal...
Chao Tse-chen is also something of a modern Christian prophet. When the Communist army entered Peiping in January and so insured its control over North China, Christians in China and throughout the world began wringing their hands. But not Dr. Chao. He wrote and circulated privately among his fellow Christians his own call to Christian battle. This week, U.S. churchmen had an opportunity to read one of these articles: Excerpts...
Shoulder the Sky. In six weeks, in an assigned paper, Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
...Modern Convenience. In Warren, Ohio, Mrs. Laura Brandt, thinking she was using water from the rain barrel, bathed the children, washed the dishes, took a bath and then discovered when she brushed her teeth that she had used her husband's crop of maple...