Word: paganization
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Readers readily admitted that there was nothing about the Autobiography so shamelessly coarse as the current novels by young Thomas Hardy (whose fictional county of "Wessex" was slowly replacing Trollope's "Barsetshire"), nothing so sensual and pagan as the lyrics of up-&-coming Poet Oscar Wilde, nothing so effete as the art-for-art's-sake of Oxford's esthetic Walter Pater...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
...view to being up to date, these radio dramas . . . have recently been giving a lot of attention to stories, which are built around the lives of our servicemen and their wives. . . . The people who write these radio plays, invariably women . . . go out of their way to popularize the pagan way. . . . Divorce is glamorized, infidelity made desirable...
...course, all cemeteries should be abolished, with the pagan custom of visiting them, and the land used for a productive purpose...
...seem to want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most of Pater's fellow esthetes took their rebellion more strenuously. In a series of sensuous, pagan hymns, Eton-educated Poet Algernon Swinburne (he had been expelled from the Royal Arts Club for laying the members' silk hats on the cloakroom floor and hopping on them) "shook [a] small, trembling fist" at the man he named "the Socialist of Galilee": Wilt thou yet take all, Galilean...