Word: paganism
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...This indifference to the commonplaces of liberal thought makes the very texture of Forster's novels. . . ." The theme of Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, is the "violent opposition between British respectability and a kind of pagan and masculine integration" in the character of Gino Carella. "For the poor, lost, respectable British people, Gino may serve as the embodiment of the masculine and pagan principle, but Forster knows that he is also coarse, dull, vain, pretentious, facilely polite and very much taken with the charms of respectability...
Devout Nazis can be married in a pagan marriage ceremony. Its details were described in London last week. Solemn with Wagnerian overtones, it is designed for "all who have freed themselves from Christianity and wish to celebrate their marriage as true Germans without the blessing of a priest. The man or woman whose passion is at its height regards the final union ... as a festival...
...Pagans & Saints. "Christians today are altogether too much like the pagan and heathen world. . . . What the evangelical church needs most is saints. . . . Our salvation after the war is not a new economic or social order nor a political new deal, but . . . Biblical Christianity...
...Easter must closely follow the spring equinox, in accord with the pagan tradition of spring festivals. For convenience, the Council arbitrarily set the equinox on March 21, although astronomically it usually falls on March 20, sometimes on the 19th...
...have been able to put them together very coherently. I have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms were never appreciated by their contemporaries, either." The program of January 23, for instance, consisted of the two last works mentioned, plus Hindemith's "Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky...