Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lots for the robe of Jesus, games have never had much to do with religion. Until now. Family-game players who have tired of refighting the battle of Gettysburg and advancing to "Go (Collect $200)" can now trek right along with St. Paul or race each other through the Christian calendar...
...other Avalon game, entitled Year of the Lord, is based on the seasons of the Christian calendar. Or, as the instructions feverishly explain, "The church goes through the whole life of Christ once a year. This makes a swell racetrack for a game, through Advent into Christmas, off again to Epiphany, around the corner to Holy Week and Easter, and finally, circle the board to Pentecost...
...Negro would seem to have a great deal in common?in some ways more than America's other minorities. They share a tragic past, part of which is a history of persecution at the hands of a white Christian majority. As the traditional outsider, the Jew can feel a special sympathy for other outsiders. His skin is white, and if he wishes he can become assimilated as no black man can. But the Jew, too, has at times known a sense of separateness and racial difference that could be as marked as a dark skin. Thus, theoretically, the black...
Many of these Southern blacks had a fundamentalist Christian background...
...same time, the black understands all too well that the Jew has not yet been totally accepted by white Christian society?which makes him a convenient scapegoat. After all, it is a role that he has played throughout history. "He is still insecure about his place in American society," suggests Psychiatrist Jack Morganstern of U.C.L.A. "You hit him and he's going to hesitate about hitting you back." Historian Joseph Boskin of the University of Southern California points out that the Jewish sense of liberalism and fair play sometimes borders on masochism. "If you have a fair-housing march through...