Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceedings on closed-circuit TV that he turned to Nickel and tagged Berlinguer with the ultimate Communist insult. "A social democrat -the capitalists will be happy to have him," he said. "Right now he's riding high, but sooner or later we must make clear that we regard Berlinguer's position as false and dangerous...
...this point in the 20th century, the strange vitality of what seem to be religious wars? Westerners tend to regard them as something anachronistic-an offense against the heritage of the Enlightenment, spasms of violent superstition. If war is often enough inexplicable, religious conflict at least seems to carry war's inherent irrationality into an even uglier, throwback realm of absolutes, beyond the reach of compromise. Or perhaps it is simply that agnostic societies find it difficult to understand why anyone would think religion worth fighting about...
...Serpents. The partying spirit comes naturally to the Seychellois, who regard themselves as the happy heirs of paradise lost. One early visitor, British General Charles Gordon, solemnly asserted a century ago that the Garden of Eden was located in the Seychelles, though there are no serpents there. Gordon argued that Eve's gift to Adam was no apple but a coco de mer, an indigenous, double-barreled 40-lb. nut, reputed to have aphrodisiac powers...
...Mother Ann Lee. "Ann the Word," as she is called, left England with a small band of followers in 1774 and is now establishing a religious community at Nistegaone, New York. The American Shakers-so named because of the tumultuous singing, dancing, shaking and shouting at their services-regard Mother Ann, who reportedly can be inspired to speak in as many as 72 tongues, as the female manifestation...
Another specimen of European faddism has recently caught on: a Persian rain and sun shield called the umbrella. Although many still regard it as a frivolous affectation, some physicians recommend it as an aid to ward off vertigoes, epilepsies, sore eyes and fevers, and several stores in Boston have started advertising umbrellas at prices ranging from 36 to 42 shillings...