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Word: godly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pino said yesterday the 1638 statute applies only to persons who actually intend to deny or debase the word of God. He added, "This is just a bit of Monty Python's humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Says 'Life of Brian' Does Not Violate 340-Year-Old Statute Outlawing Blasphemy | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...reader with an unexpected insight into motivation: "She had often, in her quiet way, thought of what she would do if someone attacked her. She had always planned to speak gently and to ask them why they were so unhappy and had they forgotten they were children of God. But a terrible thing had happened. She had wet herself, like a child, all down her legs." Red with shame, she bashes the thief with a brass lamp. To make this moment believable requires the sort of mastery that moved one critic to say Pritchett was the Segovia of the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Clarity of Mind, a Clarity of Heart | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Saturday afternoon, the new Harvard Puritan football team will arise to battle the Quakers, to repulse their offensive "inner light" doctrine and their vulgar claims of universal accessibility to perfect communication with God. Such theories are no defence for plain blasphemy...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Religious Dissension Afoot | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...walls of the grand horsesoe could be just the thing to snap Harvard out of its doleful wanderings. No more "beat' em, beat' em, buck' em. . . " We need enlightening recitals of Thomas Hooker's "A True Sight of Sin," or Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." We must rally around the Puritan cause and repulse the Quaker blasphemy as our ancestors once did to Anne Hutchinson...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Religious Dissension Afoot | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

Holpuch says the group talks about practical problems like how to react "when a coach doesn't play you and you feel you're better than the person in the game." If God wanted her to be playing, she'd be on the court, she adds, admitting "There's a lot to be learned about pride from sitting on the bench...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Team Spirit | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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