Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the stems. Some travelers have said that qat is an aphrodisiac, but a Yemenite philosopher has set the world straight on that point. "It brings rest to the body and ease to the mind," he wrote, "which cannot be achieved in any other way, save, of course, through religion. It does not encourage eroticism-on the contrary. The man who is far from his wife takes qat in order to help him remain faithful to her." Yemenites grow the best coffee in the world (near Mocha), but they export nearly all of it, because they like qat better. Outside...
There was also, in European Catholic circles, a fastidious tendency to identify Catholicism with Europe itself. Wrote Englishman Hilaire Belloc: "The culture of the U.S. is, from its original religion and by its momentum and whole tradition, opposed to the Catholic Church...
Communist Russia made no secret of its implacable hostility to religion, scarcely bothered to conceal its low regard for human life. Neither did Nazi Germany nor Fascist Italy, which made a mockery of their concordats with Rome. World War II by no means ended the totalitarian threat to Europe. The Soviet glacier edged deep into the old continent, froze such Catholic nations as Poland and Hungary in its grip. In the rest of Europe large masses still looked to Communism for salvation-or at least for retribution. In the long perspective of the Church, it was not hard to envision...
Hollywood & Religion...
...question of religion in films . . . can hardly be solved by future appearances of Mr. Crosby in varied religious guises; nor . . .by. . . a $1,000,000 committee representing the "Protestant point of view" [TIME...