Word: voided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filling the Void. In their last six weeks, the students faced a sort of summing up -an attempt by the institute to relate its studies to the present by concentrating on International Relations, Political Science and American Civilization. But by that time, the students had no need to be sold on the value of the course. Among the changes, big and small, that the ten months brought...
...student from Minnesota who admits that he had "a kind of void" in the arts, has now become interested enough to subscribe to a print-of-the-month club and to buy some originals on his own. What did he hang on his walls before? "Mirrors...
...unless discussion was confined solely to Russia's proposal to turn Formosa over to the Reds, and only if Nationalist China was first booted out of the Security Council. Otherwise, "all decisions taken in the Security Council on questions concerning China would be illegal and null and void...
...believe that when they die, they will die altogether: but they argue that precisely because man has no God to look after him, no Heaven to look forward to and no way of escaping death, he is so much the greater, because his hope and courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca, who has lost all hope, is really as dead as a doornail. FREEDOM is SLAVERY, said Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four. LIFE is DEATH, say the gloomier among the existentialists...
...that might be called 'Atheists for Niebuhr')." All these views, says White, have one thing in common: the desire "to avoid identifying religion with any claim to knowledge that might have to run the gauntlet of scientific test." Most contemporary thinkers want "to make religion fill the void created by the dissolving effects of science, both physical, as at Hiroshima, and spiritual. This has been the outcome of the 19th century's hot war between science and religion. It has ended in an uncomfortable ceasefire, and in the creation of a line that would separate knowledge from...