Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on "practical pacifists" (TIME, Feb. 17) ought to be hailed by all of liberal ilk. I have not seen as fair and unbiased a presentation of the pacifist position anywhere in the secular press, and I'm a confirmed addict of the liberal periodicals...
...believe that modern Christian pacifism is tinctured with utopianism, derived from a secular culture. In our opinion, this utopianism contributed to the tardiness of the democracies in defending themselves against the perils of a new barbarism, and (in America at least) it is easily compounded with an irresponsible and selfish nationalism...
...last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos, a Whitmanesque Secular Mass, a Polynesian opera, the music for Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet. Last week a Philadelphia production of a new one-act Nordoff opera, The Masterpiece, proved the most diverting event of a season in which the LT. S. lyric theatre had been taking a nice...
...after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most popular songs are Samson, Noah, Job, Jonah, Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, and a secular number-The Preacher and the Bear-with an old snapper: Now Lord-if you can't help me, for goodness sake, don't you help that bear...
...which ten lay speakers called the Church itself to repentance. Gloomed Critic-Philosopher John Middleton Murry: "The Church has no relevant pattern of goodness to set before contemporary man. . . . Regarding unemployment has the Church done any other than acquiesce in the appalling solution which is the only one secular society has found, namely, preparation for war? . . . The Church fails in leadership because it shows no signs of having known despair; no evidence of having been terrified by its own impotence...