Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blank Sense of Pain. Dreiser the secular tragedian lurched toward the apocalypse of revolution like a blind bear shambling to its cave. When he joined the Communist Party, he wrote William Z. Foster that it was the "logic of my life...
...books recalls Chekhov-the elegiac irony of a world where the last of the wormy, golden apples of Empire were falling from the tree. Yet the essence of Jenkins' war with the world is neither bound to a period nor insularly British. It is essentially a secular tragedy told in the idiom of understatement (which Novelist Powell admits "has its own banality"); there is a pit beneath the parquet floor and the Old School Tie may become a garrote. It needs all his well-tended prose to keep the corpse of nihilism buried in the garden...
...Divinity School is planning to expand its faculty once more and to begin inquiries into the relation of religion to business, medicine, psychology, and other secular fields, Dean Douglas Horton announced last night...
Speaking in Harkness Commons at the annual banquet of the Divinity School Alumni Association, Dean Horton revealed plans for extending the School's activities into fields normally regarded as secular. He said he hoped to obtain faculty members who would study the relation between religion and paychology, so that the modern church could "borrow the techniques of mental health...
Although Dean Horton made no mention of University Professor Paul J. Tillich, Tillich has been a reader in exploring the relation of religion to such various aspects of secular culture. The German theologian, who joined the faculty last fall, is currently giving an undergraduate course on "Religion and Culture," and is especially interested in the religious side of such fields as depth psychology...