Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he picked on the Pacific School of Religion, Parry knew he was down to the bush leagues, and not long for them. Places like Pacific are quiet, but the haul is not likely to be big (the Pacific safe had $105 in it). He picked the spot because he was getting old and tired: he even found it hard working nights. To tell the truth, he summed up, safe robbing wasn't much of a career. "It has no future for a young man," gloomily concluded Lorenzo Parry. Then, thoughtfully, he added: "And no future...
...speak not only to those who enjoy the blessings and consolation of revealed religion, but also to those who face the mysteries of human destinies alone...
...account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
Some see a special significance in the fact that the U.S., where religion has most strikingly expressed itself in the activist tradition (i.e., hospitals, orphanages and other forms of good works), has taken so well to Merton's inward-looking brand of spirituality. Whether or not U.S. religious interests are growing more contemplative, they are certainly growing. Chicago Daily News Columnist Sydney J. Harris said of The Seven Storey Mountain: "This book shows how far we have traveled since the 'sos. First, we were the social revolutionaries, looking down our noses at Babbitts. Then we realized that social...
...provides for a formal declaration on the part of Massachusetts that in accordance with "the American ideal of equality of opportunity...students otherwise qualified be admitted to (non-sectarian) educational institutions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, or national origin...