Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes beamed at the enthusiasm students showed for Graham, joking that 20 years ago, the sight of undergraduates sleeping on the front steps of Memorial Church would have sent him running for cover, fearing a student protest...
...Saturday at the Hoyt, the co-ed team entered four sailors, grouped into two divisions. In Division A, co-captain Christian Taubman skippered and co-captain Sarah Levin was at the crew position. In Division B, sophomore Sean Doyle skippered and walk-on freshman Michelle Yu was crew...
...walked into the church sanctuary with his guns--a 9-mm semiautomatic and a .380-cal. one--he paused. He had already started a shooting spree outside that left two dead. But once inside he was approached by one of the teens who had been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened up on the over 100 defenseless worshippers, killing five more, wounding seven, creating martyrs...
...film distorts religion--notice the villainous cult's poorly veiled similarities and references to South Asian religions, including Hinduism. As David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor wrote in 1989, "racist implications...became uncomfortably strong in 'Temple of Doom,' where Indy strutted like a Great White Hero among people of color who were consistently helpless, villainous, or both...
...Game Boy has tripled in sales this year, will reveal blueprints for its next game console, code-named Dolphin. Even mighty Microsoft is said to be toying with the idea of designing its own console--more like a gaming PC for the living room that would run Windows. Says Christian Svensson, editor of the gaming-industry magazine MCV: "The influence they could have over all of electronic entertainment is almost scary...