Word: religio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
...account of the trials and tribulations of Editor Guy Shipler, The Churchman, and especially the criticism of Unitarian Leon Birkhead [TIME, Feb. 28] points up a dangerous tendency in American religio-political thinking. One is made increasingly aware that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is trying desperately, and with some success, to sell America on the idea that we must choose between Rome and Moscow; that to defeat Communism, we must strengthen the power of Catholicism . . . America need not go either to Rome or Moscow for leadership. We need a new appreciation for the ideals of true democracy which our founding...
...Roerich, who left Russia at the time of the Revolution, gets faint praise in the Soviet Encyclopedia (1944), though many Roerich paintings still hang in Russian museums. Says the Encyclopedia: "His art is very decorative. His subject matter is taken out of legends, and he treats it in a religio-mystical reactionary style...
...Ministry of Fear (Paramount), as Graham Greene wrote it, was a thriller so lambent with smolderings of conscience and with religio-psychological sidelights that one critic compared it with Dostoevski. In the film version these murky glimmerings are gone, and the thriller's glow is thus considerably dimmed. But it is a tensely directed (by Fritz Lang) and finely photographed show...
...sharpest religio-psychological writer of the season is an elderly devil named Screwtape, whose letters of instruction have somehow fallen into the hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued...