Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin to see, I believe, a definite Catholic spearhead rising to do battle with the embryonic Brotherhood-of-Man religion based on Communist lines. The early Christian movement met something of the same opposition, but probably a closer parallel can be found in the history of the rise of Mohammedanism...
...pageant opened with a shameless portrayal of Thomas Dudley, founder of Newton, swindling an Indian squaw out of the land on which Cambridge now stands. Ensuing scene paid homage to the four pillars of power; religion, education, patriotism, and industry...
...greatest writing in human history has been religious writing-though most modern poetry reflects little sense of it. In a natural desire to show that poets and religion have been on speaking terms in the past, mediocre British Poet Alfred Noyes has collected an anthology, The Golden Book of Catholic Poetry (Lippincott; $3.50). In it readers will find such hardy perennials as Chaucer, Dryden, Pope, Francis Thompson...
...explain America's unique religious situation in a book for British consumption, the Cambridge University Press picked the dean of Harvard's liberal, 300-year-old Divinity School, a New England Congregationalist with a B.A. from Oxford. Published last week, Dean Willard L. Sperry's Religion in America (Macmillan; $2.50) gets its points across in a manner Britons will understand-emphasis-by-understatement, damnation-by-faint-praise, denunciation-in-a-soft-voice...
...helps them fill their papers. Dudgeon steers his writers away from controversy, into innocuous, bland writing that will offend neither Republican nor Democratic editors. For papers which get their W.N.U. service ready-printed, and thus have no advance editorial control over its content, he takes special pains to handle religion, politics, etc. so that nothing positive is said. The most popular feature is the "improved" Sunday-school lesson written by a Moody Institute...