Word: churchless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of rapport with the time's intellectual torments, a capacity for drilling and painfully hitting some universal nerve. That, apparently, is the special gift of Simone Weil, a Frenchwoman who died in 1943 at 34 and who has since been informally canonized as a "saint of the churchless," a "patron of the undecided...
America has never had such a simple focus for respect; its heterogeneous beginnings, its federal structure, and its Churchless State all militate against it. A King would be most inappropriate in America. But he is most appropriate to England; he could not have lasted through such a variety of governments and social conditions were...