Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sigmund Freud, now 73, suggests how his psychoanalysis is affecting anthropology, study of religion, literary history, education. He also announces: "The belief that in man sexual life begins only at, puberty is incorrect...
...Perish!" As he rose to his climax Socialist MacDonald launched on a theme seldom seriously dealt with by League statesmen: Peace in the East. "There is an Old World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...
Politely the audience sat through scenes showing Chicago gangsters in a loop dive, other scenes of the same gangsters being converted "to the religion of Henry Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford...
Chain Churches. Distribution-minded Joseph Herbert Appel of the John Wanamaker Stores spoke before a National Conference of Retail Distribution in Boston last week. Enumerating many forms of chain selling, he said: "Education is so promulgated through classified schools, Religion is so dispensed through denominational churches...
...week work will be a mighty factor in the country's cultural revolution and will deal a smashing blow to religion...