Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparative prosperity of U.S. religion hearten the visitor and make him envious? At first glance, yes. On second thought, he found it "curiously depressing...
...offensive than the mawkish Madonnas and cute little representations of Jesus in most modern chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What on earth had happened...
...great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment of the education best suited to his aptitudes." The commission's recommendations...
...against Falangism. When charges of "atheism" and "ungodliness" were hurled against him and his party, he countered by denouncing Venezuela's Jesuits as "foreign representatives of France," accused Caldera's party of claiming to be "the instrument of a divine miracle." But Gallegos promised to respect all religion, and in the end the religious issue seemed to have affected the election outcome not at all. The important thing to Venezuelans was that democracy was finally having its day and that Gallegos seemed able to guarantee that it would be a long...
...Similarly, the Century approved of "the study of religion as an integral part of the public-school curriculum under the instruction of regular public-school teachers...