Word: icon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the legends, he once held back a flood by placing an icon on the beach and declaring that the waters would not go past it. Another time he thwarted a forest fire by similar means. He lived in a cave, wore a deerskin cassock and slept on a wooden bench with bricks for his pillow. As a missionary, he defended the Aleuts against the traders who exploited them. He ran a school and orphanage for the natives, among whom-even in his own lifetime-he was popularly regarded as a saint. Last week the Orthodox Church in America...
...earth, the hope of the world; the next moment on the brink of decay and disaster. That is why American patriotism can be so strident, so naive, so defensive. The fiercest insistence that this is God's country, the most devout treatment of the flag as an icon, suggest an inner doubt, a sense of impermanence and vulnerability. The trouble is not excessive nationalism but, on the contrary, inadequate nationalism-if we define the term not as aggressive superiority but a sure sense...
Though Lenin's birthday may not be quite the international event that the Soviet press makes it out to be, the deification clearly fills a deep domestic political-and psychological-need. "Please remember, for us Lenin is an icon," declared a ranking Soviet official. The icon, moreover, serves an up-to-the-minute function. In a year scarred by serious economic shortcomings and rumors of rifts at the top, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin have invoked Lenin's ideas to enhance their collective leadership and his image to associate themselves with the heroic struggles...
...apparent anticipation of the centennial, the Chinese party has attributed the "theoretical basis" of its thinking to something called "Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung thought." It is an inventive bit of phrasemaking that definitely one-ups the Russians. While the Soviets have been busy turning Lenin into an icon, the Chinese invented a new trinity of Communism...
...inner room before a pine fire and an icon. Alyosha, his legs locked behind his head and his arms out gently rocking him back and forth, grinned up softly at his visitors. His Deidre was tending to the tea. Beside her the young Alpha Beta brother sat with his head clasped between this knees, trying to contain abounding...