Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jersey Council of Christian Churches last week asked President Truman to change the name of his private plane. Said the Council: the "Sacred Cow" is "offensive to the Christian conscience of our land . . . has a pagan association which is not healthful to the minds of our young people...
Lent was also the season in which the church prepared pagans for baptism at Easter. To onetime heathens, Lent (from the Anglo-Saxon word for spring) came naturally: like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...
...presence of the religious greatness of the damned, in the presence of genius of disease and "the disease of genius, of the type of the afflicted and the possessed, in whom saint and criminal are one. . . . It is incomparably easier and more wholesome to write about divinely pagan healthfulness than about holy disease. We may amuse ourselves at the expense of the former, the fortunate children of nature and their artlessness; we cannot amuse ourselves at the expense of the children of the spirit, the great sinners and the damned. ... I would find it utterly impossible to jest about Nietzsche...
...mural paintings were "even below the esthetic level of the Arrow collar artist." The work of 1941's successful applicants for Guggenheim Fellowships included: "The recording, translating and annotating of the Hudhud, a series of epics chanted as work songs and at death wakes by the Ifugaos, a pagan, terrace-building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation"; "A spectroscopic study and analysis of gases of the volcano Mauna...
...party's Storting members, Erling Wikborg, explained its principles last week to New York Timesman Cyrus L. Sulzberger. Said he: "During the war we learned for the first time what a pagan political system was like. . . . We are neither of the right nor of the left. . . . In social questions we have radical ideas, but some conservative leaders have promised to cooperate with...