Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With only 18 years of real independence, Czechoslovakia must be more a spirit than a nation. But what a spirit! Again these gallant peoples have gone to the mat for the cause of a freedom they may never enjoy. Dubcek must have known that the Soviets would never allow him to succeed. But he must have known also that they would be forced to use the only powers they can be sure of-deceit, murder, and subjugation-to keep their empire from crumbling at their feet. Perhaps now the "peace at any price" people will see Munich revisited, and come...
Legislators who grump about "socialistic, if not Communistic, doctrines at the law school" have finally found an excuse for striking out at the new spirit. Three faculty members became involved in an Office of Economic Opportunity legal-services program. When they took on a school-desegregation suit in one Mississippi county and another suit challenging the residency requirements of the state's welfare laws, the mossbacks reacted with a vengeance. The legislature leaned on the state board of higher education, which pressured the university's chancellor, who in turn forced a crackdown by Law Dean Morse. Though...
...place your trust in violence and revolution. That is contrary to the Christian spirit, and it can also delay instead of advance that social uplifting to which you lawfully aspire. See to it rather that you support undertakings in education, that you seek to organize yourselves under the Christian banner and to modernize your agriculture." On the final day of his visit, Paul inaugurated the annual meeting of Latin American Catholic bishops by defending his encyclical prohibiting Catholics from practicing artificial birth control...
...Spinoza, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spencer and Freud. Yet fundamental religious doctrines-the existence of God, for example-play no real part in the philosophy of Scientology, which is concerned solely with the here and now and is based on the twin principles that "man is basically good" and that "the spirit alone may save or heal the body...
...this unlikely premise, Romainian Gary has constructed a wildly funny, and ultimately mordant picaresque novel. The time is 20 years later, and Schatz has become police chief of a German town, though still captive straight man to Genghis Cohn's raucous spirit. "It has been my fate," says Cohn, "to add a new dimension to the legend of the Wandering Jew: that of the immanent Jew, omnipresent, entirely assimilated, forever part of each atom of the German earth, air and conscience." Night after night, he sits on Schatz's bedpost, teaching him Yiddish and the art of Jewish...