Word: protestante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Erhard returned to Bonn and publicly backed up his Defense Minister, accepting his nominations for new commanders to fill the place of the retiring generals. For one thing, Erhard did not want to set the precedent of firing a civilian Defense Minister just because a few generals were angry...
When New York City last week declared Trinity Church a municipal landmark, it honored something more than an esthetically pleasing place of worship. A grimy, spire-topped Gothic church overshadowed by Wall Street skyscrapers, it is an island of pastoral calm amidst the marketplace. Its outdoor benches are often crowded...
The new demands of prison life, says Gilkey, frequently exposed the strict Protestant ethic as legaiism wrapped in hypocrisy. Many of his fellow prisoners were critical of the compound's fundamentalist ministers. On principle, they refused to lend their canteen cards to heavy smokers-but they would not hesitate...
Education is geared to absorbing facts. Values are based on money, power and status. Life is ruthlessly competitive, yet morals rest on a Protestant puritanism demanding emotional restraint. Work and pleasure are largely directed by machines, and children are put into communication with machines too early, often as a substitute...
∙The Last WASP in the World under lines Fiedler's conviction that the basic tone of U.S. creative intellectual life has become Jewish. He takes a poet, fashionable yesterday, hopelessly square today-a gangling, bearded figure of Protestant, romantic, outgoing, Western America-and sticks him in a Jewish...