Word: latitudinarian
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...Achieving an increasing degree of economic autonomy, many women found that marriage bonds that chafed could be snapped more easily than before. Meanwhile, Freud had become a household god, and the composition of the new trinity was the id, the ego and the superego. Armchair analysts lolled under many latitudinarian banners-Jung, Adler, Reich, Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch and even the Marquis de Sade. What all of this generated was an unprecedented inquiry into the nature and needs of women as sexual beings...
Mensa's membership grew slowly, for obvious reasons, and the Berrill recruits became increasingly lonely in their Olympian solitude, finally deciding to open the club to the rest of the top one per cent of the English people. Galled by this latitudinarian admissions policy, Berrill retired from the scene muttering about declining standards of excellence...
...Coop argued that selling liquor might "cast reflection not only upon the Society but the University community as a whole." This may well be, but such prudery is rather out of place in the latitudinarian atmosphere of Cambridge. Closer to the real point was the statement that dispensing redeye to the populace might lead to "untoward incidents...
...They are liberal without being icy. They are independent without deserting Christianity. They are socially-minded without becoming faddists. . . . They are experimental and opportunist without scattering and fighting the air. They are progressive without becoming latitudinarian. . . . Instead of so much emphasis on soul saving, the church must direct its attention to life saving . . . must become a clubhouse, a community house, a place of refuge for all lonely and perplexed, instead of a guardhouse and a place of penitence and tears...
...Diocese of Southern Ohio is considered "broad." Broad was its recently-resigned Bishop Boyd Vincent; broad its Bishop-Coadjutor, now full Bishop Theodore Irving Reese. But more than broad, altogether too latitudinarian for most Episcopal tastes, is Bishop Paul Jones, "the bishop without a diocese," called last fortnight to Southern Ohio to carry on during Bishop Reese's illness (TIME, Nov.11). A pacifist, Bishop Jones is looked on by broad churchmen as Liberals eye a Red. Last week broad and high churchmen heaved sighs of relief when the diocesan convention of Southern Ohio elected Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean...