Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, Western religion has taught the same doctrine for millenia, but in recent decades has fallen into disuse while religious doctrines imported from the East have been all the rage. Perhaps that is because western religion has lost touch with its mystical roots and its spiritual bases. It became established, easy, mundane, and could not provide the actual enervating, uplifiting experiences we poor sinners need to get through life...
Some of the entries are predictable and disagreeable. Both Wagners were virulent anti-Semites, occasionally to the point of black comedy. Lamenting, as he often did, the decline of morality and religion, Wagner concluded, "The old Jewish God always ruins the whole thing." Roman Catholics stood little higher in their estimation and they loathed the French too. During the Franco-Prussian War, they summed things up by saying that France "has been undermined by the spirit of the Jesuits...
...this moment four of the most prominent men in the fields of religion (John Paul II), politics (Zbigniew Brzezinski and Menachem Begin) and literature (Isaac Bashevis Singer) are Polish-born. Hurray for Poland...
...World War I, Alexander worked for the St. Louis Star for four years and for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 14, eventually becoming assistant city editor. He came to New York City and TIME as a writer in 1939. Equally at home in subjects as diverse as politics, religion, music, foreign affairs and the classics, Alexander became assistant managing editor in 1946 and managing editor three years later (see A Letter from the Editors...
Today the mythic has become real; cheap handguns and narcotics have become the outlets for aggression. Ironically, desegregation is partly responsible. Middle-class blacks, once a restraining force in the ghetto, have moved out and left behind lower-class enclaves. Social ties that still bind Hispanics, like family and religion, have worn away. Though blacks increasingly attack whites, most of their victims are other blacks...