Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerned with human destiny and with experiences of sacredness and transcendence." They are "organizations of human thought" for coping with the difficult world, serving as a refuge from loneliness or an "umbrella of divine authority" against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because it conflicts with fundamentalist beliefs...
...good thing that in Connecticut and Massachusetts women should be subject to grievous suffering because Roman Catholic pressure refuses to allow even doctors to give information on birth control even to non-Catholics.* It was not a good thing for Christians to persecute and even burn heretics; it is not a good thing when Communism, in its dogmatic-religious aspect, persecutes and even executes deviationists...
Facts & Faith. By contrast, the new religion, said Sir Julian, "could be a good thing. It will believe in knowledge. It will be able to take advantage of the vast amount of new knowledge produced by the knowledge explosion of the last few centuries in constructing what we may call its theology-the framework of facts and ideas which provide it with intellectual support...
...already gone beyond the mere limits of natural food. General Foods' Tang is a completely artificial product created in the laboratory. Scientists have already isolated 30 volatile elements in coffee, some day may be able to produce artificial coffee that tastes just as good as the real thing. Charlie Mortimer, a "show me" man, admits that there are some practical limits to the revolution in the kitchen. Says he: "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of a steak. I want my steak." But if the public showed...
...bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along the Rhineland, fighting wherever he found the enemy in force. The Battle of the Bulge was, of course, the plain result of U.S. military ineptitude, and a very good thing it was that Montgomery was handy to fend off disaster-although how he did it was never made clear. And so it goes...