Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...levels of society, privacy has become a lost Eden, pursued only by a few stubborn eccentrics. Everyone praises privacy, of course, but few really practice it. More and more people operate in the spirit of the jet-set character who gives each new wife a press agent for a wedding present. But then, how can privacy be prized when the President of the U.S. bares his surgical scar on television for all the world...
This decade's spirit of ecumenism, until now limited to cooperation among Christians, is reaching out to Jews as well. Building on the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Non-Christian Religions and similar brotherly statements by the World Council of Churches, Christian leaders are eager to bring Judaism into interfaith explorations. Last year one such friendly dialogue, involving 26 Catholic and Jewish scholars, took place at St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa. Lutherans have held four theological discussions with Jewish scholars at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. Harvard Divinity School is planning a symposium in October...
...published in 1920 after his return to Moscow, was a rejection of sculpture as mass in favor of an expression of "continuous depth," as more befitting what was soon to become the space age. "With the plumb line in our hand, eyes as precise as a ruler, in a spirit as taut as a compass," he affirmed "kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time...
...audience of attentive cameras. The result might easily be mistaken for a show's out-of-town run-through on a night when most of the original cast have been laid low by a virus; yet the film has a certain economy-style charm and a cheeky spirit of what-the-hell-have-we-got-to-lose-for even on stage, Stop the World was never more than a flimsy improvisation on which to hang a saucy, tuneful score...
...others, I have heard with concern the suggestion that Mr. Samuel Bowles's intention to test the constitutionality of the Massachusetts loyalty oath is a somewhat quixotic enterprise. I hope that this is not the general feeling of the faculty. All such test oaths are repugnant to the academic spirit; the fact that this has been in effect for many years does not make it less so. And the fact that it has been accepted for so long is surely a reflection of the acquiescent tendencies of the community rather than the harmlessness of the oath. I hope that...