Word: godless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After tracing the history and importance of religious toleration in the U.S. Conant stated.... "public institutions, including tax-supported schools, shall be secular... Long ago this University chose the secular path." But, Conant pointed out, "To equate secular with Godless and the Godless with immoral... is surely a fallacious line of argumentation...
...same day many Roman Catholic priests in the Soviet zone read a pastoral letter denouncing materialism as "Godless and irreligious . . . anti-Christian and anti-church to the roots...
...Thank you for placing the article in the International section. Perhaps there, amidst the political news, rather than under Theater, Books or Religion, it will be more thoughtfully read by those decent godless people whose vision of world salvation is limited to the United Nations...
...play the British, having captured a New Hampshire town, decide to hang a prominent rebel as an example to the townspeople. But for the parson they are seeking (Victor Jory) they mistake a godless scamp (Evans) who is drinking tea with the parson's wife (Marsha Hunt). The scamp, however, insists on carrying out the imposture, and in the gaudiest traditions of melodrama has his neck in the noose when deliverance comes...
...Vintage, Author West explores two worlds: 1) an imagined purgatory which borrows nothing from such Godfearing models as Dante's Inferno but has much in common with the Godless statism of George Orwell's 1084; 2) the real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...