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Almost half of the magazine is taken up by two articles attempting to refute Sidney Hook's contention "that religious faith is superfluous except as supplying an emotional need and that this function hardly warrants complicating the issue with the incomprehensible concept of God." The Rev. David Burrell counters with the claim that the concept of God is inherent in any notion of morality. Michael Novak, author of the other article, claimes that religious faith does not in fact satisfy the emotional need that Hook discusses...
When Cliffies look for explanations, popular Freudian terminology occasionally creeps into the conversation. The concept of an "oral-oriented personality" links overeating to chain smoking and great talkativeness...
...that idiot, that fool. He told us only a week ago that the Navy was ready for anything. Now it's lying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor." As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as an admirer of Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations concept, Connally began working with Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to line up Senate support for the United Nations. He helped draw up the U.N. Charter in San Francisco in 1945, made speech after speech on the Senate floor to assure its ratification...
...works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
...boys and girls generally pooh-poohed Monro's alarm. But the usually tolerant dean, who feels that probably 90% of the students have high moral standards, is less concerned about incidents than about interpretation. As one senior revealingly wrote in the Crimson: "Morality is a relative concept projecting certain mythologies associated with magico-religious beliefs...