Word: paganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...descended on New York City for a five-day Triumphant Kingdom Assembly, the fifth of eleven Witness assemblies that will take place throughout the world this year, heard the imminence of Armageddon preached in flower-decked Yankee Stadium, spent their spare time making door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw up a "human chain" around the auditorium...
Quick Answer. Delegates filled hotels, hostels and private homes; 400 youths camped in tents just outside London. Blue-robed Nigerians with pagan tribal scars mingled with costumed Finns and with Indians in colored voile gowns. As usual, the U.S. sent the biggest delegation : 4,000 men and women, hung with cameras, the men wearing broad-brimmed hats, bright neckties and, occasionally, cowboy boots. Great Britain provided 1,600 delegates, Canada 500, Germany 300. Nine Russian Baptists showed up (Russian Baptists have been missing from alliance congresses since 1928), but there were no delegates from other Iron Curtain countries or from...
...Gallery. Where Hogarth suppressed all detail and strong color to concentrate on his model's glowing face, Evergood does the opposite. His girl is no prettier or more sensate-seeming than a doll, with chalky flesh and blaring costume. Yet she dominates her cluttered setting like a new, pagan deity, a personification of summertime on American shores...
...World War II, the villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France's Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...
...stood in a vestibule which was painted pitch black. The only light came from the yellow eyes of a weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence...