Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinal is one of those novels that may have the undesired effect of cheapening a fair cause. In this instance the cause is the right of the Catholic Church to teach and sustain Christianity in its own way. To some extent. The Cardinal is an outright, often vigorous pro-church tract that ploddingly touches on nearly everything from birth control to Author Robinson's view of the church's view on separation of church and state. But the author has included so many banal fictional tricks that both tract and story quickly reach a sustained level of stupendous...
...Walter hopes soon to give Elmer and Elsie a simple kind of "memory," so that they can learn by experience to avoid unpleasant situations. Then he can teach them tricks and study the development of their conditioned reflexes...
...path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education slide, "teach about Caesar in the home . . . but not enough about Paul...
...English a moved closer yesterday with the announcement that University Professor I. A. Richards will teach an experimental General Education course next year that may eventually replace English A for filling the freshman composition requirement...
President Conant came out last spring against allowing avowed Communists to teach, but he said that "As long as I am President of the University ... there will be no policy of inquiry into the political views of the members of the staff and no watching over their activities as citizens...