Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Case Against Liberalism," at Tuesday evening's "Liberalism" meeting, the fourth in a series of seven. Not only did the speaker flail the liberal conception of basic human nature, but he also hit at our religion of today, declaring "we need a church, a new church, an humanistic secular church...
Congratulations. . . . You did a creditable job on a difficult subject. Although there were a few sarcastic statements in the article, TIME gave a truer, less prejudiced account of Vatican politics and policies than one would expect from many secular publications. Undoubtedly, TIME knew the article would bring many letters of condemnation from bigoted, intolerant anti-Catholics who shut their eyes to the obvious sense of the Papacy's position on social issues which TIME summarized brilliantly. (Everyone but the most anti anti-Catholics will admit that the papal assertions on social issues must underlie any permanent peace.) However, this...
Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...
When Dr. Koussevitsky raised his baton for the world premiere of William Schumann's second secular cantata, "A Free Song," the combined Radcliffe and Harvard choirs had a bare three weeks of rehearsal behind them; the baritone soloists had three days. Yet the technical difficulties of the music had all been mastered, the opening dissonance was clean, the final "We Hear Liberty" rang out, and with very few and minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor...
...tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...