Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Solomon, when he was a youngster, he remembers, sowed his wild oats. What, though, does he say when he grows old? He says: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink. . . . This time the question was: Could anything more arrantly pagan be suggested to sincere Christians...
...actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have the properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn...
...early Christian temple was different in spirit from pagan shrines in that the former was a place to meet for worship, whereas the latter was considered the actual residence of the divinity. The result was a lack of self-consciousness and a simplicity that is of much interest to the student of the arts...
...Easter was in the beginning a pagan spring festival to which the early Church affixed the idea of the Jewish Passover and of the Resurrection. This year the first Passover Seder occurs the evening of Easter Sunday, April 17, a coincidence Church calendar calculators long tried to prevent...
Professor McDougall is the author of several books of psychology, some of which are "Physiological Psychology", "Social Psychology", "Body and Mind", and "Group Minds." After extensive travels in Borneo, during which he made a detailed study of the native and their customs, he published a volume entitled "Pagan Tribes of Borneo". The last of his works which have been published are "Is America Safe for Democracy" and "Ethics and some Modern World Problems...