Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS JOHN WOLBACH '48, is right when he says, "The problem with astronomy today as I see it, is that the science has divorced itself away from philosophy and religion." Wolbach, an amateur observer, doesn't fit into the hierarchy very well; he is not a professional astronomer, nor a student, nor an employed research worker. "Many people," David Layzer says, "don't understand Mr. Wolbach...
...Park in London (1972-73) or the Princess in Acapulco (since February), Hughes' pattern of existence was much the same. He was completely sheltered from outsiders by five nurse-aides, four of whom are Mormons. Hughes had picked them because their abstinential religion rendered them, in his eyes, less susceptible to the weaknesses of human nature that he knew so well. The penthouses were isolated from the rest of the hotel by locked elevator and surveillance devices, sometimes including TV monitors. Security guards patrolled the halls to ward off intruders...
...land known only too well for its diversity of life. Its crowded millions comprise a social fabric that seems to be held together by its numerous divisions and sub-divisions into categories of ethnic type, caste, religion and income. The elaborateness and complexity of the social hierarchy is also reflected in the physical environment by an incredible variety of textures, colors, sensations and gestures that are generated in the process of daily living. Naturally, all attempts at conceptually simplifying, let alone resolving the profusion of currents and conflicts in Indian life seem destined for failure. And yet, occasionally...
Miller and his successors modified earlier views of the Puritans as anti-egalitarian, hypocritical killjoys by examining more closely the role their religion played in their lives. Because he focuses on the language of that religion alone, Bercovitch can go even farther and assess the Puritan achievement in a frankly celebratory vein. "History betrayed them, we know," he writes. "That they persisted nonetheless requires us, I believe, to redefine their achievement in a positive way." In labeling Cotton Mather as the keeper of the American dream, Bercovitch writes that "he rescued the errand by appropriating it to himself." Although...
...double one on Jewish Women. Over and over again, the theme that emerges from these autobiographies is the struggle for education-a struggle against the anti-Semitic government that enforced a rigid quota system to limit Jewish attendance at state schools, and a struggle against the Jewish religion itself, which set up learning as the highest good and then decreed that is was the preserve of Jewish men only...