Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians have put an clusive extra quality in the movie that permeates every scene and multiplies many times the effect and distinction of the whole. This quality can only be called religion, but it is religion in a new role, presented with new perspective. The religion is built around the priest, Don Pietro, a worker in the underground. The children of his neighborhood, as sincere while praying and singing in his church as they are while blowing up a building with dynamic, typify the contrasts the movie makes. Even more striking is the picture of Don Pietro himself...
Double Indenture. In Atlanta, a serviceman, asked for identification, pulled out his upper denture, exhibited name, rank, serial number, blood type and religion engraved on the shiny red roof...
...From the days of the French Revolution onwards a new religion has been taking possession of the souls of men-a religion of secular humanism. The main articles of this faith are that the exercise of reason and the extension of education are in themselves enough to purify and strengthen the nature of man and enable him to make the world a progressively better place; that a high standard of moral conduct can be confidently commended to the hearts of men on its own merits and by its own authority...
...small boy. Eventually he took his Bachelor of Divinity degree and his Master's at Vale and started his career with a $50-a-month pastorate in Detroit, his one & only parish. Since 1928 he has been in Manhattan, at Union, where he teaches ethics and philosophy and religion. A high point of Niebuhr's theological recognition came in 1939, when he was invited to deliver the esteemed Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh.* The lectures, published later as the two-volume Nature & Destiny of Man (TIME, March 24,1941), form the substance of Niebuhr's neo-orthodox theology...
...Counter-Revolution. Controversial subjects such as politics and religion are forbidden on Yosian ambles. Members are "of all races, colors and creeds, a sort of walking democracy ... a meeting of the minds as the bodies relax." But there have been troublemakers. Just before the U.S. entered World War II, says Swift, "the Communists made my life hell." It may have been because Swift had broken his own rule and was indulging in subtle counter-revolutionary propaganda, using analogies from nature (ant life...