Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hole in the Wall. Walled off from the world by the desert and the strictest military secrecy, Muroc Air Force Base is a strange sort of community. In all it does, it is dedicated to military aircraft performance, with special emphasis on speed. In the realm of speed it also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently...
...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 to go to God from the Devil, why, then, we will even start with the Devil...
...Author Sheen does not denounce all psychiatry, or even all Freudian techniques. He concedes that medical science, in dealing with mental problems that have no ethical or moral causes, "has a vast area in which it can legitimately operate." He objects to Freudian doctrines chiefly when they enter the realm of philosophy with such assertions as "man is an animal and has no free will, or that 'religious doctrines are illusions...
...lives in the realm of nature and of social relations, is part and parcel of the material world and of society . . . The churches must realize that they have their social duties, and must serve under whatever political regime ... In order to live [under the Communists], they must become their words in concrete social action. Therefore, a concrete progress of service is a necessity...
...imply that scientific progress is the highest goal of Man," Compton said. "High wages and low prices are not fundamental bases of human happiness." Ultimate human happiness must reside in the spirtual realm, based on sympathy, morality, and religion...