Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DURING a critical period in the present world adjustment, when he was held up at Knysna in the African summer of 1932, Shaw was inspired to break away from his ordinary business of playright to give the rank and file his views on modern religion...
...views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds." Suspecting that the masses are ready to accept the doctrine of Truth, the author feels that he is timely in getting out this plea for a realignment of religious thinking. He exhorts us to accept the religion of Christ as he taught it and exemplified it in his life. Shaw has come to the conclusion that a large number of people are now intelligent enough to understand that which only the "best minds" had grasped up to the time of the present social revolution...
...laws to society as it is we meet with stubborn resistance. It is as if men were frightened to see how far they have departed from the ways of their fathers and how impossible lit was to go back, and had therefore determined to hold fast to something. Religion, paternal authority, the family, all may go; but at least we still have the Constitution and the Supreme Court, and so long as we cling to them we may feel sure that in the field of Government we shall still be ruled by the wisdom of our great grandfathers...
Columbia's Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 46, is assistant professor of anthropology, a specialist in the folklore, mythology and religion of Southwest U. S. Indians. Her husband, Professor Stanley Rossiter Benedict, 49, is a Cornell chemist. They have no children. Reflected Mrs. Benedict last week: "I believe women have scientific ability. But there are lots of difficulties confronting them. Marriage and children, for example. . . . Then there is the difficulty of positions. They won't take women in men's colleges or in co-educational undergraduate colleges. That limits women scientists to women's colleges or museums...
...patent as that of more esoteric activities, is attested by the fact that many teachers of Economics had their beginnings in other subjects. While one might dismiss as naturally biased the declaration by a leading economist that it is the "greatest cultural study," the fact remains that just as religion was the dominating problem of the Middle Ages, so questions of Economics are paramount today...