Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modest way, Raphael Demos is an American success story. A Greek immigrant who worked his way as a janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...
...simple Eskimo, best known for igloos and blubber-eating, may have been a bearer of culture to the New World. The Eskimos, says Curator Helge Larsen of Denmark's National Museum, once had a highly developed art, religion and social system. Perhaps they passed on a little of their culture before they lost...
...Among the remarkable objects found in Ipiutak ruins are chains and swivels cut laboriously out of walrus ivory. They have no strength and are obviously not for use. Larsen believes that the Ipiutaks, pushing farther & farther into Arctic America, eventually lost touch with their sources of metal. But their religion still demanded certain objects, so their artists copied the metal chains and swivels faithfully in ivory, hoping that the gods would not notice the difference...
...planned his park so that everything leads up to a monolith-a vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
Still Speaking. Jones observes: "Vital religion cannot be maintained and preserved on the theory that God dealt with our human race only in the far past ages, and that the Bible is the only evidence we have that our God is a living, revealing, communicating God. If God ever spoke, He is still speaking ... He is the Great I Am, not a Great...