Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denied." (In a separate action, the church pledged to counteract bigotry against Muslims and Arabs in the U.S.) The document also considered the touchy matter of converting Jews to Christianity. The approved text asserts that "Christians have no reason to be reluctant in sharing the good news of their faith with anyone." It adds, "Many Jews have been unwilling to accept the Christian claim and have continued in their covenant tradition...
...city's skyline, prudently had its blueprints vetted by feng shui experts. For a fee of several thousand dollars, a feng shui master advised moving a bank officer's door away from a nearby escalator to preserve the delicate yin-yang. Management, mindful of the feng shui faith of the Hong Kong Chinese, the bank's main customers, complied. In Singapore, which is 76% Chinese, the newly completed Hyatt Regency was suffering from a lack of business in 1971 when a feng shui master advised that the hotel's fountain and facade be remodeled to rid the hotel of unhappy...
...psychedelic '60s. "It still sounds fresh," remarked McCartney, 44. "Was it really 20 years ago that we made that record?" Then the pop legend spoke about his continuing commitment to "peace on earth, love and understanding between everyone around the world." Said he: "We have to keep our faith, keep pushing and hope we have better news to report 20 years from today." But to make that happen, we are all going to need a little help from our friends...
During the last years of World War II, most buildings in central Berlin were destroyed. Postwar planners, in a kind of survivors' frenzy, pulled down much of what remained intact, finishing with bulldozers and wrecking balls what the bombs had begun. They clung to their modernist faith, bedazzled by the idea of starting anew. The war had given their ahistorical impulse -- Erase the past! -- maniacal urgency. The denuded cityscape was regarded in the '40s and '50s as the war's silver lining, a great opportunity. New buildings would be high-rise, set far apart and back from the streets. Density...
Underlying the soap opera is an essay on the seductive comforts of a conformist society and the way in which free thinkers inescapably disquiet the people around them. When the pastor speaks of faith, he means order, moral certitude, freedom from doubt. To him there is no deeper satisfaction than to be regarded as normal. His attitude echoes the values of a police state; when Road opened at Yale in 1984, then more effectively at Britain's National Theater in 1985, the pastor seemed a humbug, professing affection for an old friend while ruthlessly trying to have...