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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense, a socialist lecturing to atheists on political economy is every bit as much preaching to them about the salvation of their souls--propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem--as a priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Handel:Concerti Gross! Opus 6(1 Mu-sici Ensemble; Epic). A mixture of exuberant passages, serene fugues and multivoiced instrumental harmonies, Handel's Concerti Nos. 4, 9 and 10 get the electric tempo they deserve from a brilliant ensemble that was launched in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...sense, a socialist lecturing to atheists on political economy is every bit as much preaching to them about the salvation of their souls--propter nos homines at propter nostram salutem--as a priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyres and the prophets. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of wordly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...March of the Men of Harlech, the war song recalling the last great uprising of the Welsh against the English in the middle of the 15th century. After 18 minutes of "Freedom" news, interviews, oratory and song, Men of Harlech roared out again, and the announcer said in Cymric,* "Nos da [good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men of Harlech | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...physics courses Nos. 205-206, 61.5% of the students flunked or resigned during the academic year 1955-1956. The next year's figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Failures | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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