Word: spenglerism
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...OSWALD SPENGLER ONCE SAID that a sure sign of the decline of the West would be its increasing preoccupation with religiosity rather than religion. Today, with pop monstrosities like Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway, Jesus freaks on the cover of Life, and cheap return tickets to Zen Satori available only Saturday night, we seem to be substituting an elaborate facade of images and facile spiritualism for any real commitments to spiritual growth. Our culture seems to be providing more and more channels for what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace," personal fulfillment, or the illusion of it, with no trial...
...Crimson's Ric Rojas will be trying to match his performance last Saturday against Cornell. Harvard won the meet, 19-40 Rojas set a new record of 26:06 on the live-and-one-half mile Franklin Park course, beating Tom Spengler's two-year-old record by one second...
...Crimson's Rick Rojas set a new record for the five-and-one-half-mile course to win the race. His time was 26:06, one second faster than Tom Spengler ran the course in a race against Cornell two years...
Moreover the Cornell runners are unbeaten in 18 connective dual meets. Only Harvard was able to put a blot on that record, holding Cornell to a 26-28 tie in 1970. In that race, Harvard's Tom Spengler defeated All-American Jen Anderson, a member of the U.S. Olympic team this year. Spengler finished in record time...
...list of great pulse flutterers like Toynbee and Spengler must now be added the name of Peter Schrag. A knowledgeable and lively writer on the subject of education (Voices in the Classroom), Schrag has restricted himself here to American history. But alas, the apprentice pundit has not restricted himself enough. He is still the victim of that dread disease of Master Theorists: the single explanation...