Word: sectarianism
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Nowhere near the logical saturation point are Irna's present shows. Her Guiding Light, Woman in White, Road of Life and Right to Happiness are all flourishing. Irna's favorite among her works is Guiding Light, the story of a non-sectarian minister in a melting-pot community, into which she pours most of her philosophy and night-thoughts. It is in Woman in White, though, that Irna gets in some of her most telling licks. Featuring Karen Adams, a heroic nurse, Woman in White, like many other script shows, is remarkably independent of radio's taboos...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...
...Incorporated fortnight ago in New York was another organization, the Non-Sectarian Foundation for Refugee Children, which will work with the American Friends Service Committee by placing European refugees in U. S. homes. Among its sponsors: Eleanor Roosevelt...
...true that the Mass was composed six hundred years after Chartres and St. Thomas, six centuries following the time when man held "the highest ideal of himself as a unit in a unified universe." Undeniably it was written following the Reformation, in a Europe torn by a chaos of sectarian dissonances; but for this very reason is it so all-embracing, for instead of excluding heresies, it absorbs and sweeps them up into the one gigantic scheme. Into the Mass is blended the simple humanity of Lutheranism and the grandeur of Catholicism, the eternal spirit of religion rather than...
...Thousands of young people go on into life from our American colleges, not merely familiar with, but believing in, the non-sectarian and interdenominational character of the chapels which they have attended in student days. If they return to the churches from which they came, they ask of those churches something of the tolerance and catholicity which they have found in their chapels...