Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressed by the book, many of the younger Freedomites began turning a hand to work in the prison, asked for other books and schoolteachers, and slowly shed their traditional sullenness. To date, 14 have been paroled, and last week Canadian officials proudly announced that the first returnees applied at the Kootenay government land office to buy land in burnt-out Krestova. For the first time, Freedomites will be landowning, taxpaying citizens...
...agnostic who deplored the mindless cruelty and superstition of pagan legends, Eliade, a Greek Orthodox Christian, comprehends ancient mythology as religious man's existential effort to understand the mystery of the universe. Little known outside university circles, Eliade has had a profound influence on a number of younger theologians-notably Emory's Thomas J. J. Altizer, one of the leading "death of God" thinkers. Another Eliade enthusiast was the late Paul Tillich, who for three years ran a joint seminar with him at Chicago on theology and the history of religion...
...younger dons and writers supported Lowell on the ground that ability; not sentiment, should be the determining factor in the election. But many of them could not vote...
...converts because of its efforts. Each United Ministry member has his flock--ranging from Jews and Episcopalians numbering in the hundreds to barely a handful of Presbyterians--but none seems impressed with the relative abundance or dearth of his followers. Most of the members, especially the younger men like Mumma, Blanning, and Schneider, seem satisfied to influence and be influenced by the great ecumenical, theological, and social changes that are pushing their religions into the modern secular world. The number of other people who might be drawn into the excitement seems almost immaterial to them, just so the excitement...
...Blanning's United Ministry colleagues agree with him. One, a man who needs an old established church, says he feels such thinking comes from the frustration of not possessing the sustaining element of a congregation and all the duties it entails. "I've attended meetings with these younger men," the minister went on, "where they continually show their unhappiness by throwing rocks at their jobs and at their religion. Still, I have nothing against a man taking a dual role if he thinks its right...