Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost a maxim in Greene's world that cynics will always be cynics, the novelist usually does try to convince us that under their hard shells his anti-heroes really do want desperately to believe. If not in politics or in love, (at least not for long), then in religion and the afterlife. The place they perpetually go in Greene's novels to quaff their spiritual thirst is the Catholic Church; and if their inability to take God seriously keeps them from having faith, at least they can while away their time feeling guilty. The most successful portrait Greene paints...
...challenge, and the debate has gathered velocity ever since: in private faculty discussions, in the columns of the Daily and the Des Moines Register and between state legislators. One lawmaker, State Senator Bass Van Gilst, noted indignantly that Weltha, in his reincarnation course, "seems to be teaching a pagan religion. To me, it's not the duty of land-grant colleges to pursue these things...
...Bhagavad-Gita reckons a day in the life of the creator god Brahma as roughly 311 trillion, 40 million years. This twitch in the flank of eternity is divided into a thousand cycles of four ages. The first is golden with virtue, wisdom and religion. Vice is introduced in the second age and the universe goes downhill thereafter. We are, according to the ancient Vedic text, some 5,000, years into Kaliyuga, the final, corrupt age. This cycle should all be over in about 427,000 years...
...performances of the supporting characters, however, provide the sparkle to the show. Ed Redlich shines as the brash American detective, William Blore. Redlich exploits beautifully the gluttony, thickheadedness and grating bluntness of Blore--a hilarious character. Equally good is Louisa Jerauld as the religion-obsessed, sexually repressed spinster Miss Brent. Jerauld's quivering voice and slow, shuffling walk suggest the righteous, moralizing old maid. David Rieffel, as the gentle, retired General John MacKenzie, also portrays his character sensitively, especially in his frightening monologue to Vera...
Emphasizing the different experiences of the black community, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Social Change, said black religion will continue to be rooted in the history of slavery and the working people despite the rise of the black middle class...