Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar view was expressed in a letter to the CRIMSON by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, who claims that the present discussion has made Memorial Church "a symbol of disunity in the Harvard community." Although he feels that "one can find legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that," he "cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community...
...issue also, he claims, has led to a view that the University has changed policy in this matter, but he asserts his inability to detect any "such change in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or in any of the great graduate faculties with which I have had contact...
...Another view of the situation came yesterday from the Islamic Society, several of whose members asserted that "we have no expectation that Harvard stop being a Christian institution." The society is "grateful for the use of PBH," they continued...
...both the theological case and the historical one are sufficiently shot through with ambiguity so that a decision might as easily have been made to treat this religious memorial to our war dead as a universal place of worship. One can find, moreover, legitimate and esthetic justification for the view that a Christian place of worship be just that--or for a view based on a more broadly defined ecumenical principle. I do not wish to join this debate...
...them. Author Wilson has chided gloomy fellow novelists who write "as if we were back in the Depression years," and his point is well taken. He himself is open to the opposite charge of a boom mentality about the human condition. The pithiest critique of this point of view came from F. Scott Fitzgerald during another boom: "The victor belongs to the spoils...