Word: christianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most influential personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
...There is an interest on the part of our students in non-Judeo-Christian religions," Oliver said. "This collection will help us meet it." The books will be ready for circulation within six weeks, he added...
...Roman Catholic bastions of Bavaria, the riotous midwinter weeks of Fasching (from the German phrase "to pour from a barrel") serve roughly the same functions as carnival elsewhere in the Christian world. It is a season of merrymaking, mischiefing and fair-maidening begun by medieval Catholics who wanted to say a hearty "farewell to the flesh" (carne vale) before starting the Lenten regimen of fasting and penance on Ash Wednesday. In Munich, the capital of Fasching, the farewell involves a series of masquerades, formal balls and street parades, which lead to, among other effects, an increase in illegitimate births every...
...expected, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior's Marc Bohan shared center stage in presenting haute couture to the class of '78. Their message was wel come to those grown weary of gypsy dresses and the theatrical costuming that has flavored European fashion for the past three seasons. The feminine form is back, in clothes that are clean-lined, uncluttered, soft and supple. Today's couture, said Bohan, "is a return to simplicity...
World War II gave nearly everyone the opportunity to be employed by the savior of his choice. Christian swords and Marxist sickles drew the blood of a common enemy. For many, the war was good for the soul. In a U.S. economically galvanized by the conflict, it was good for the stomach as well. Unemployment vanished, and the unspent wages of war work compressed like a powerful spring. The economy suddenly began to look like a jack-in-the-box poised for peace. When it came, the future sprang up in vistas of well-lighted suburbs and grinning grillwork...