Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author MacInnes (a Jumble himself) appears to know and like his Spades, manages to write of them without condescension-and without condescension's obverse, the kind of Negro-worship shown by U.S. Beatnik Jack Kerouac. The book's slight plot sags a little, but the gaiety and moroseness of wild, roiled lives are well told, and the reader gets a Spadeful of irony as the dark minstrel Lord Alexander sings...
...false god. Said Zurich's Dr. Adolf Guggen-biihl: "Man is basically nonrational; he has too many basic, instinctual drives ever to become wholly rational or logical, and medicine must help him to accept this fact." To Jung & Co., the latter-day worship of rationality has its roots in the scientism that gave birth to both the world of technology and the cultural need to venerate rationalism...
Secular Paradise. The disparity of faiths and backgrounds that makes it hard for Harvard students to worship together, said President Pusey in his baccalaureate speech, "promises to grow worse rather than better in the years to come." But religion in a secular university confronts a far more significant difficulty: "the advance of secularization." Despite academically polite language, Pusey took a sharply critical look at this "way of life which . . . proceeds deliberately without concern for religion." So great have been the successes of secularism that it "has itself become a faith and raised a hope that man can through...
...undergraduates, in addition, circulated a broadside attacking the Chapel as a "useless memorial." The broadside claimed that "it is preposterous to believe that Jews, agnostics, and others can have any honest sympathy in a Protestant Memorial," and noted that "followers of the Roman Catholic faith are forbidden to worship in any but a formally dedicated church." Feeling ran high for a short time and then died down as the University maintained silence...
Chief among these is the worship of the "balanced budget" and the almost emotional dread of "deficit spending." If the economy is so constituted (and here a careful analysis is needed) that it cannot rely on private consumption to keep it in a state of expansion, the role of government must be seriously re-evaluated. The Eisenhower Administration has so far shown itself unwilling even to probe the hypothesis...