Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only by such a countrywide reawakening . . . will our "gadget" civilization become a civilization which will enkindle the minds, hearts and souls of the Western world with Christian optimism, rather than this continued wallowing in secular pragmatism...
Some professors of economics may share the lady's feelings, when they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
Lake the John Reed Club, religion, is being driven underground at Harvard. Forced to the damp sub-cellars of Eliot House, faith, like a frightened and desperate mongoose, flees the heights. Those who seek partial beauty in the secular ornaments of music are entitled to use the glorious Eliot Tower--granted a favored position by those who know not what they worship. Those who seek the more basic truth, shifty and apologetic, must beg a subterranean clothes-closet...
Honorable Mention for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize went to: Charles S. Enright '51, or Kirkland House, for a group of poems entitled, "A Secular Comedy"; William Lyon Phelps '51, of Eliot House, for a group of poems entitled, "Places and Portraits"; Peter S. Hanke '51, of Dunster House, for a group of poems entitled, "Now in the Antique Game, and Other Poems"; and Gerald P. Fitzgerald '52, of Winthrop House, for a group of poems entitled, "Words for Sibyl's Leaves...
...matter-a dualism which became in Kant the divorce between reality as revealed by faith, and reality as revealed through the senses. The result today is the frightening schism "between facts and values, between the realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than the contrast between the intended effect and the actual effect of the thought of these...