Word: religio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before a reader gets too cozy with Professor Perella's explication of the religio-erotic kiss symbolism in Western culture, it should be noted that not everyone has found mutual labial stimulation appealing. To the Chinese, for example, kissing had revolting associations with cannibalism. Even Dr. Freud seemed standoffish when he observed in his essay, "The Sexual Aberrations," that the lips are composed of mucous membrane and constitute the entrance to the digestive tract...
Lace v. Mace. The wildest plans, of course, spiraled from the turned-on brains of the hippies, to whom the Pentagon was not so much a symbol of America's aggressive Far Eastern policy as a religio-esthetic abomination. "Everybody knows that a five-sided figure is evil," said one New York hippie named Abbie. "The way to exorcise it is with a circle."* Abbie and a hippie poster painter, Martin Carey, last month "measured" the Pentagon to determine how many hippies would be needed to encircle it (answer...
Hargis, head of the rightist religio-political Christian Crusade, started the day's speeches with a prayer for the "misguided youth who picket this meeting today...
Third, for a democracy to remain able, religio-cultural heterogeneity "has be digested into tolerance." In India cultural plurality exists without the value of tolerance," he said. Thus, when India became free, the tension between Islam and Hinduism forced partition on the country...
...Methodists are now giving renewed attention to the kind of learning that Duke sums up in its motto, Eruditio et Religio. They feel that "church-owned colleges should be frankly conducted as instrumentalities of the church." The goal is a strong religious director for every campus, Christian-hued research by faculties, and-because the church expects its colleges to replace its missionaries abroad-many more foreign students. Says John Gross: "If Moscow's Friendship University is the world center for the study of Communism, then the centers for the study of the Judeo-Christian West should be the church...