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Also in the realm of the moral influence of religion falls the fact that Harvard Catholics feel that atheists and agnostics are less likely than Catholics "to hold ethical opinions with which they can agree." Half the Catholics polled, however, feel that atheists and agnostics are just as likely as Catholics to "do the morally right or kind thing," and we can certainly speculate that some of this "tolerance" comes in many cases from their experience at Harvard...
Since in all the various areas of learning--sociology, psychology, the sciences, history, philosophy, even business administration--ultimate question about existence are involved, these studies represent practical actualizations of a vast and embracing spiritual realm. In the Tillichian transcendental realm there can be no divorce of preaching and pedagogy; each discipline is a partial manifestation of the Meaning of Being...
...Streetcar Named Desire, the better of Tennessee Williams' two great plays, forced director Rabb out of the realm where he belongs. Determined to find a "new" interpretation, Rabb supplied a long program note full of fuzzy theorizing and such ideas as: "Awe is antithetical to pity. Pity is indecisive; in awe there is no escape." In stripping Blanche DuBois of her nobility and routing out all traces of pity for her, Rabb distorted the play out of all proportion. As Blanche, Cavada Humphrey fought a losing battle, and was the only cast member even to attempt mastering a Southern accent...
Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...
...even remotely considered ultimatums or threats. That is not the way to reach peaceful solutions." And to Khrushchev's suggestion that he might come to the U.S. to talk things over with Ike, the answer was an ambiguous maybe: "I would never rule [it] out of the realm of possibility...