Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"We are not interested in producing well-rounded men, but men with sharp, abrasive edges-rebels with clear minds and uncowed consciences, critics of society, not adjusters to it." The words would have a stirring ring coming from any educator, but they take on added meaning coming from the dean...
Sebastian Knight, a novelist, has fallen through the last trap door, death. His half brother, the nameless first-person narrator of the novel, feels the loss like a psychic amputation. It is as if a great secret had been buried with Sebastian, perhaps the meaning of life itself. The half...
This impassioned and vague plea has its interesting aspects, but seems fatuous. It implies, or rather assumes, the existence of a determined and self-conscious attitude among the writers of post-adolescent love fiction. These tales are obviously intensely personal things and their authors doubtless believe that they are probing...
No one can say that four years at college fails to stimulate thought on the Big Questions--after-life, the meaning of existence, man's role in the universe. The College, however, does not attempt to answer these Questions; teachers, in Raphael Demos's phrase, may lead students into the...
And with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia...