Word: skeptical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BACK IN 1896, William James counselled the more maleable boys down at Yale on the subject. As he then figured it was probably safer to choose, despite any doubts, to believe. For who knew what the skeptic risked by leaving life's riddles unanswered? But the times, as they say, have a-changed. Belief is not the sure bet it once was. Too often belief, when not merely irrelevant, has been shown to be destructive or self-defeating. so many philosophies, life styles, governments have been tried--and abandoned--over the past seventy years, that it is little wonder that...
...only one of their kind could quibble with the show's numerous song and dance numbers. If this review were to mention all the good ones, it would end up becoming a Rabelaisian shopping list. Terrence Currier--who too often seemed to underplay his being the play's resident skeptic--unleashes a good, old-fashioned tenor. Ted D'Arms as Monsewer, an English anglophobe (a part almost too small for the amount of good things he puts into it) does a bit called "The Captains and the Kings" which would be the high point in any Tony Richardson film...
PAUL KRASSNER, in his introduction to this book, terms Crumb "the illegitimate offspring of Krazy Kat." George Herriman's great comic strip of the twenties wasn't centered around a philosophy of life, either. Its fantasy world was akin to Crumb's: the hopeless romantic (Krazy Kat), the skeptic who rejects her love (Ignatz Mouse), and, above both, the defender of society and justice (Offisa...
Room at the Top. One day, sitting in a tree reading Moliere, young Pritchett made his spiritual getaway when a voice announced to him: "You are a skeptic." At 16, he happily went to work as an office boy in the leather trade. Here he adopted a surrogate father named Hobbs, who was cynical, glamorously debauched, and gauntly full of death. After four years, he went to live in Paris, and eventually moved into a writing career via journalism. Could any young man more convincingly escape a family trap? Yet just as they obsessed each other, Father and Mother still...
...dead, how can man prove that he lives? Rational proofs cannot convince the skeptic; the Bible alone is authority only to the convinced believer; the demythologized universe no longer points to an unseen creator. One approach to an answer that appeals more and more to modern Protestant thinkers is the undeniable evidence of religious experience-the intuition men have of their dependence upon God. The popularity of this insight, in turn, leads back to the study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the theologian who first developed it as a basis of Christian faith. After a generation of neglect, Schleiermacher, who died...