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Addressing a gathering of people noted for their professional excellence, Theologian Paul Tillich spoke of the ambiguity of perfection and found cause for uneasiness about the dimension of culture in the contemporary world. Excerpts:
...ambiguous. ∙ The negative forces of our one-dimensional culture are extremely strong: if cultural goods can be sold and bought it is an almost irresistible temptation for contemporary creative minds to produce in order to sell. Often they resist this temptation and are in danger of being ignored by society, but who can prevent the consumers from taking the greatest creations of the past as goods for their entertainment or their social standing or as objects of conversation? Nobody can, and the consumers then miss tragically the experience of these works as expressions of ultimate human possibilities, profoundly significant...
Kerr noted that the effect of the university on national life will not be solely, or even most importantly economic. Universities can initiate a "new dimension of service" by replacing decaying central cities as the great cultural centers of the nation, Kerr said. This would be in line with the...
As a member of the Catholic Church, Brother Antoninus was provided with a dogmatic basis for his poetry. "The dogma has been helpful," he said, "in that it has provided me with subject matter and a frame of reference, and has made me concentrate my energies. But it has imposed...
One way or another, whether they wither away, become dormitories in suburbia or merge with neighboring communities, the small towns of old are vanishing, and with them will vanish one dimension of the nation's life. The small town had its defects as a place to live in, and...