Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quick) Spillane, 33, World War II fighter pilot whose sexy blood-and-thug detective thrillers have netted him handsome royalties, announced that he had become a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He had discovered a greater story in the Bible, he said, "than you or I will ever find in fiction." Convinced that the type of books he has turned out have contributed to the "moral breakdown of the present generation," he intends to clean up his writing...
...that he has no claim to a creed of hope and purpose. During most of history, the Jews have responded with Gandhi-like nonresistance. The tragi-comical result, says Ussher, is that the Jews have acted in essence like Christians, and Christians as followers of the tribal Jehovah. But Jewish doggedness, in Ussher's view, has harmed as well as saved the Jew. It has given him, in his urban life, a "peculiar and stern conditioning," robbing his intellect of "fresh and erratic blooms." Nature has become to him "a lost Eden." It is Ussher's hope that...
...psychoanalyst would probably point out that their "faith" may be resting upon a perverse, egoistical ardor for a form of self-perfectionism among the ranks of Jehovah's Witnesses...
After saying that he regards "with equal respect--if not affection--those who worship Reason, Christ, Jehovah, a Mammon," the author of the letter goes on to make the statement, "the churches surround the Square, along with the movies and bars, for those who need to escape," The degree of respect involved here seems rather negligible and the degree of objectivity even more...
...dank period to be gotten over with as "sinlessly" as possible, rather than as a grand and inspiring challenge to the individual. We here at Harvard have learned to accept good and evil as inevitable and to regard with equal respect--if not affection--those who worship Reason, Christ, Jehovah, Socialism, or Mammon...