In trying to understand the extraordinary changes the Catholic Church underwent in the middle of the twentieth century, I recently came across two illuminating novels. (firstthings.com)
Auden's gloss on the Iliad amidst the wreckage of the middle of the twentieth century is dark, almost nihilistic. (firstthings.com)
This is the pathetic faith of Western man in the middle of the twentieth century, a faith utterly unjustified by experience. (religion-online.org)