Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second TIME cover artist, Boris Chaliapin, who fled the Soviet Union in 1925, sat in the gallery last week when Khrushchev addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, sketched swift, vivid impressions of his own of the Soviet Premier in action...
Where numbers connected by a hyphen are given (e.g. 100-99) this signifies the first number answered "yes", the second number answered "no" to the statement or question...
...agnostic's view came in a close second; after it came the traditional Christian formulation and then the belief in "a vast, impersonal principle of order or natural uniformity working throughout the entire universe...which, though not conscious of mere human life, I choose to call 'God.'" And 33 people felt moved to sketch their own conceptions of the Deity since the poll hopelessly failed to offer them a satisfactory approximation...
...factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic, "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation of the Bible with certain established scientific truths, such as the Copernican or Darwinian theories...
...have had built into it, from the first, a relentless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of literal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor that stands in second place as cause of the atheist heresy is similarly an objection against the theology of the faith, grounded on the ethics of that same faith: Ivan Karamazov's outrage at "the existence of undeserved pain and suffering in the world" prevails as a powerful force among undergraduates still--the paradoxical...