Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion was passé, and the nation's chief barometer of values was the skyrocketing stockmarket...
Countered the 107 petitioners: "Criticism of religion can certainly take forms which are unsuitable to schools . . . But the doctrine that the criticism of religion must be outlawed as such . . . has no justification ... If the suppression of the Nation ... is allowed to stand . . . the consequences to the schools, to the press, and to the vitality of American freedom may well be very serious indeed. Newspapers and periodicals will be obliged to omit news and comment which any group in any denomination, Catholic or other, regards as objectionable or run the risk of being suppressed in the public schools...
...that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take the place of religion. It tries to prevent mental illness and to "minister to a mind diseased." It is essentially optimistic and believes that man can learn to live at peace with himself and his fellow...
...about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to call any day now. That is an ambitious aim. Is it not, in fact, a challenge to religion on religion's own ground...
...late Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman (Peace of Mind) made diligent efforts to bring pastors and psychiatrists together (see MEDICINE). Published last week was a memorial to his efforts, titled Psychiatry and Religion (Beacon Press; $3)-15 addresses given last year at Boston's Temple Israel Institute on Religion and Psychiatry. One of the contributors best informed in both fields is Presbyterian Rev. Seward Hiltner, executive secretary of the department of pastoral services of the Federal Council of Churches. Said...