Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic element in the cult of The Girl, thinks Cox, is that "Protestantism has almost completely failed to notice it, while Roman Catholics have at least given some evidence of sensing its significance...
Like many another civilization before it, the U.S. is acquiring its goddess. Writing in the current issue of the Protestant biweekly, Christianity and Crisis, Harvey Cox of the Division of Evangelism of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies identifies her as The Girl...
...12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer society. (She is crowned not in the political capital, notice, but in Atlantic City or Miami Beach, centers associated with leisure and consumption.)" Not that Baptist Cox identifies The Girl with the Madonna. "In fact she is a kind of anti-Madonna. She reverses most of the values traditionally associated with the Virgin-poverty, humility, sacrifice. In startling contrast, particularly, to the Biblical portrait of Mary in Luke I: 46-55, The Girl has nothing to do with filling...
Then one of the first appointments was announced, and, not by chance, it went to a good friend of Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which passes on all new judges. William Harold Cox, who roomed with Eastland at the University of Mississippi law school nearly 40 years ago, has a solid legal background in Jackson, has occasionally served as a circuit judge and has not publicly committed himself on touchy civil rights issues. Yet, just as if a button had been pushed, the N.A.A.C.P. began protesting...
...leave here. They might come in without my knowing it and dump everything out on the street." Denying that she had consented to the sale last February, Alice Lurcy stubbornly sat out court action. Said she vaguely: "I don't know what I'll do if Surrogate Cox orders me to leave my beautiful home...