Word: heathenism
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...Flowing flaxen tresses, bare feet, bare arms, and nearly bare breasts contained with difficulties by a tattered homespun give this young enchantress a special magic of her own. The prudish townswomen's resentment of the mysterious forest-girl drives them to nail up strangled birds to ward off her heathen charms...
...What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?" Secretary Chase's response was the motto, "In God We Trust," which first appeared on the bronz two-cent pieces...
...clash of strong cultures is likely to be a god-eat-god affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades...
...each side of podium stand Concertgebouw flunkeys, eyes popping. "Heathen cabal," says...
...world. Last week 17 Protestant ministers from the lands reached by American missionaries met at Williams College to mark the 150th anniversary of the haystack meeting. Their topic: "America's new role in the world church." That role has sharply changed from the condescension toward the "heathen" of the five Williams students. In a joint message, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church have put it thus: "Plainly, a deep-going reorientation in the method and spirit of our mission is called for. Only Asians can carry the weight in witnessing for Christ to Asians. We cannot plant...