Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saint of the Risorgimento. Born in 1785, the son of wealthy Milanese parents, Manzoni spent his early 20s in Paris, became a political liberal and a skeptic. But back in Italy, he returned to the church he had abandoned, and the rest of his life was a parable of the compatibility of Christianity and freedom...
Philosophers & Experts. From Rome, aged Philosopher George Santayana sent over his long-awaited Dominations and Powers. The old skeptic wrote as brilliantly as ever, but the book was a tantalizing rehash of his ideas on liberty and man's fate. His conclusion: "Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." A more optimistic and challenging view could be drawn from LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man; one of the year's bestsellers, it lighted up the whole heritage of the West. In The Conduct of Life, fourth volume of a 20-year tetralogy, Lewis Mumford asked...
...Skeptic. In Atlanta, Earl Martin, 22, was fined $13 for stealing a comic book entitled Crime Does...
...argument. "Fifty years ago, your characteristic atheist...was as clear as you were about what it was he was denying when he said there was no God and what you were asserting when you said there was. Now...the bite of argument is gone: and the atheist or skeptic will say, 'I don't know what you are talking about. You are asking questions that need not be asked...
Everybody Gets Rich. Taking a professional skeptic's view of the whole affair, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith summed it up with a tart comment on who fights who these days and why: "You can't blame Hurley, you can't blame Murphy and you can't blame the promoter [Norris]. Chances are all three will win in the end. Let Matthews be passed up just a little longer, and there'll be such outraged cries from coast to coast that the bout will make everybody independently wealthy...