Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixture may look higgledy-piggledy at first glance: in England, for example, Eliot believes that culture includes "Derby Day . . . dog races . . . the dart board . . . boiled cabbage cut into sections . . . the music of Elgar." It also includes the English bishop's characteristic gaiters-in fact, religion and culture tend to become so intertwined that bishops appear to be "a part of English culture, and horses and dogs ... a part of English religion...
Eliot believes that there is a very good reason for linking horses and bishops. "No culture," he argues, "can appear or develop except in relation to a religion"; nor can any religion survive without the "maintenance of culture." And yet, religion and culture are not identical. A close observer can see both the bond that unites them and the element that separates them in, for instance, the writings of such men as Voltaire and Nietzsche-who contribute to culture by assaulting, and thus recognizing, the presence of the religion that makes their culture cohere...
...order to carry out the principles of my religious faith, which is Hedonism, I am obliged to observe certain distary restrictions. For example, my religion requires me to cat filet mignon and devil's food cake with fudge frosting on Friday; to consume cocktails before and after each evening meal, and to abstain entirely from certain uninteresting foods, such as fish...
...first of two career conferences scheduled for this week on futures in religion and education, respectively will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight in the Union. The week's second forum will be held at Leverett House Thursday...
...that he made. First, he pointed out, the gravediggers' union was affiliated with a Communist-dominated international (C.I.O.'s Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America). Second, the strikers' action was "an unjustified and immoral strike against the innocent dead and their bereaved families, against their religion and human decency...