Word: schall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the Swiss border to Basel. He won permission to take his collection with him on condition he turn over to the German government Lucas Cranach's painting, The Judgment of Paris. After the war, it was returned to him still bearing the label, THE PROPERTY OF REICHSMAR-SCHALL GOERING. Von Hirsch gave it to the Kunstmuseum in Basel...
Writing in the Jesuit magazine America, Schall says that the nation's growing commitment to the environment is a "dangerous" and "unbalanced" trend. Rather than being a "pragmatic recognition of cleanliness and conservation," it seems all too often to be a "kind of subtle undermining, in its theoretical origins, of the destiny and dignity of man himself...
...most undermined, Schall believes, by ecologists who want to limit population for fear that the earth's growing mass of people will soon use up available space and the dwindling natural resources. Schall takes exactly the opposite view. As the population of the United States grows and settles into urban areas, he says, there is actually more space in the country, not less. "We don't know what man can be," he argues, "and when we limit our capacities and our future [through birth control], we are basing this on the technological and social limits of today...
Moving into even deeper waters, Schall contends that the new faith in the environment has widened political differences between nations. Both Communists and leftists in the emerging countries, he says, believe that man is supreme. Therefore, "the old-line revolutionaries of the Second and Third Worlds, who are firmly fixed on the Christian dogma of the dignity of man, are quickly parting company with the new American ecological heresy." If this heresy were generally accepted, he warns, it would "deflate the revolutionary's whole claim to renew the face of the earth for man-to 'hominize...
Doomsday Books. The heresy that Schall attacks is most evident in the U.S., the world's leading proponent of ecology. In fact, he says, the grim ecologist is a peculiarly American phenomenon. "Today," he explains, "the doomsday books are being written by the ecologists and biologists who have lost their confidence that tomorrow can be better, that something new can really come into the world through man and his intelligence." Technology, he believes, can provide that something, perhaps in the form of the mass-produced housing and unlimited electrical power proposed by Buckminster Fuller...