Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lamps and candles light up the empire fauteuils, the portraits of Napoleon and the etchings of Napoleon's greatest battles. Fèvre has never ridden in the subway or a bus; he steadfastly refuses to switch on an electric light or read a daily paper. "What men call progress," he says bitterly, "is nothing but a sham. Transportation has improved, but noble sentiments become rarer...
...there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...
...Unanticipated Disaster." The Classical Greek and Oriental idea of the progress of man, says Author Niebuhr, was that there was no such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views...
Last week, the Baltimore Evening Sun made out a progress report based on a survey the college had just made. Two of the 127 were dead, killed in World War II; the survey found that the survivors seemed perfectly normal and apparently well equipped for life beyond college. The most unusual thing about them was that an unusually large number (55%) were taking postgraduate work in universities around the world, preparing to be doctors, ministers, or professors...
Purpose of the new professorship is the "study and teaching of history and geography of the sea and ocean areas of the earth and their affect on commerce, communication, and the spread of culture." Emphasis will be placed on the study of security and progress of the United States in view of the mid-oceanic and insular position of North America relative to other lands...