Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gods whistle in the air," wrote Sean O'Faolain. "The Otherworld is always at one's shoulder." The Otherworld and the real past are inseparably bound together in the Irish imagination and in the runic place names, from the pagan landmark called Two Breasts of Dana to ancient Waterford, where in 1170 Strongbow, the Norman Earl of Pembroke, clamped 71 centuries of English rule on Ireland. What the mists of legend cannot obscure is that for ages of religious persecution and economic exploitation, through countless risings and reprisals, the Irish slaved, starved and battled for their land...
...long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
Today, intellectuals are in government. But as a group, and as always, they are worried. Where once they resented their exclusion from power, they now fear it may corrupt them. Here Hofstadter shows real impatience with his lodge brothers. "The great intellectuals of pagan antiquity," writes Hofstadter, "the doctors of the medieval universities, the scholars of the Renaissance, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, sought a conjunction of knowledge and power and accepted its risks without optimism or naivete...
Cecilia, a Roman beauty who was whacked to death with a sword after her pagan captors failed to suffocate her in an overheated bathroom, was made the patron of music and musicians because she "sang to the Lord in her heart" on her wedding...
...Arthur J. Moss, Edward Duffle Jr. and Leonard M. Pagan of Los Angeles...