Word: weltanschauung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undesirable Stimuli. "First of all, Catholics would ask Freudians to throw out their bootleg philosophy and theology and provide themselves with some properly aged nutriment. . . . Freudians need to recognize frankly that to prescribe for the education or re-education of anyone, a philosophy, a Weltanschauung, is necessary. . . . They would find that [Catholicism] . . . has much to recommend it. They would find a Weltanschauung elaborated by many generations of contributors who have produced a very thorough analysis of the end of man; namely, the purpose and goal of human life...
...other hand, our participation may attract the rest of Germany's and the world's attention to the situation in the Russian zone. Germans voting in the zonal elections actually won't be electing councilmen as much as they will be registering their decision on overall Weltanschauung. . . . If they vote SED, they approve the Soviet system; if they vote CDU or LDP, they endorse Western democracy...
Forty red-cheeked German girls, bundled up in jackets, overcoats and boots, huddled in a chill classroom of Berlin's Louisa Henriette Schule for their regular lesson in Demokratische Weltanschauung (Democratic Outlook). The Magistrat, the Allied-approved municipal council, had ordered their professor, snowy-thatched Ernst Weber, to teach them about the Nürnberg trials. He began...
...decade of implacable struggle to foist its Weltanschauung on Roman Cathoolics, Nazi Germany has assaulted the Church with lurid charges. It has smeared the priesthood as a venal, immoral, politically intriguing, traitorous "black international." Last week came the most vicious charge of all: that the Church started World...
...Handbook has endeared itself to nature-lovers who know nothing else about the college. Mountaineers, skiers, and any other interested organizations might be amalgamated, while retaining their own identity, into a Harvard Outing Club. It is time individual walkers and cyclists get together, open their eyes to a new weltanschauung, and kick against the tyranny of city streets...