Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philosopher Stace's "it" - whatever it is - is hardly what the run of mankind means by "God."* But TIME should more accurately have said that Dr. Stace was looking to psychological laws as a modern basis for morality...
Frustrated Exports. Have Britain's modern "mercantile adventurers" the stuff to sweep the dollar main? Gone were the days when Britain faced no real competition on world markets. As one energetic Briton said last week: "We must get out of our carpet slippers and don swashbucklers' boots." But the British were not doing much swashbuckling. As the sellers' market was fading, U.S. sales resistance mounted. British prices were too high for the U.S. market; Austin Motor bravely slashed the prices of its cars from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned...
...busy, happy week for Carl McIntire. He had just published a new book (Modern Tower of Babel; Christian Beacon Press; $1.50) crammed to the covers with haymaker denunciations of his numerous enemies. He received word that two new denominations had voted to join his American Council of Christian Churches. But no less rewarding was the news that came from Madison, Wis. Before the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Theologian John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary had referred to some of McIntire's activities as "unscrupulous vilification." Exclaimed McIntire delightedly, "They're getting to be very conscious...
Town & Country. Since 1942 Goucher has had two campuses, one the original site in Baltimore, the other an unfinished modern campus eight miles away in suburban Towson. It was one too many. The plan had been to move Goucher intact to Towson. Then wartime shortages and skyrocketing prices slowed construction...
...others both here and abroad, has been unable to figure out just where American music is going. He is studying many scores in all effort to find clues, but one of the real question marks about him is whether he has Koussevitzky's ability to analyze and evaluate a modern composition...