Word: devoutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straightforwardness of the colonels. It may be, too, that old-fashioned country morality is what we in the U.S.A. need most today. Rest assured, the Greek is too individualistic to allow any dictatorship to last. But his tradition-oriented philosophy does not allow him to act irrationally, either. His devout faith and his love for exercising in rational debate, his ethnic pride and personal honor, make him the least vulnerable to enslavement-if enslavement it is at the hands of the colonels. I fear more for America's sense of direction than Greece...
Religious belief, it would seem, has fallen on bad days. God is dead. Hell has cooled. Man's only heaven is what he can make of earth. Old-fashioned militant atheism may be on the wane, but to some appalled and devout Christians, unbelief seems ascendant, and Antichrist just around the corner. The trouble with the image, according to an international symposium on unbelief last week, is that it is all wrong. "The modern world," declared University of California Sociologist Robert N. Bellah without irony, "is as alive with religious possibility as any epoch in human history...
...finely detailed 16th century crucifix with figures of Christ and the thieves is similar to another crucifix and house altar made in Bavaria during the reien of its devout Albrecht V for his official Munich residence. On the other hand, an enchanting 17th century heart-shaped crystal pendant with the tiny figures of Eve and the serpent, is believed by Parke-Bernet's expert, John Hayward, to be either Italian or Spanish. One of the loveliest gems in the Gutman collection is a 17th century enameled gold votive crown by an anonymous Peruvian goldsmith. It was probably commissioned...
...pictures. Briefly he joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. But how could his neat landscapes compete with the bogus medievalism of Burne-Jones' Sir Galahad or the religiosity of Holman Hunt's The Light of the World, in which a mournful schoolmaster wearing a mortarboard of thorns drew devout thousands to the doors of British and U.S. museums...
There is something innocent, sweet, and perhaps inaccessible about Geoffrey Chaucer. He regarded sex as one of God's blessings. His devout and lusty pilgrims wending their garrulous way to Canterbury have an easy intimacy with natural odors, natural functions and the natural affections of men and women. The seamless unity of faith and flesh creates an abyss between the 14th century and the 20th. Chau cer's people are not paralyzed by self-consciousness in the act of love. They possess none of modern man's neurasthenic haste to import trouble in paradise. They export...