Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anybody who ever came near Sukarno knows he has too much ego to be a slave to anybody"). Nor was Indonesia a member of the Communist bloc. Sukarno had his own ideas. His government, he constantly proclaimed, was based on the principle of NASAKOM-the happy union of Nationalism, Religion and Communism. The world was divided into NEKOLIM (neocolonialist imperialist powers) and NEFOS (the Newly Emerging Forces that would destroy imperialism). To speed the destruction, Sukarno was building a costly headquarters for a new "U.N." to be known as CONEFO (Conference of Newly Emerging Forces). To promote the general cause...
...room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder, to sulk). Privacy became valued as individualism and the ego became valued. In earlier times, retreating into solitude was a religious act; now privacy became a devotion in the new secular religion of the self...
...fast the same car was going by as much as 25% . Perception also varies with physical condition: menstruating women, for example, react slowly, while older persons have less facility for perception of speed and depth. Interpretive judgments may vary with each individual's "age, race, nationality, sex, profession, religion-all his lifetime experience." Most people hear only what they want to hear. To an insecure professor, for example, the overheard phrase "ten-year plan" may well sound like "tenure plan...
...young people, "whom you could see coming, with their long hair and miniskirts." He estimated that 70% of his listeners were under 25. Equally encouraging to the evangelist was his discovery that public indifference to England's churches did not mean a revolt "against God, or against religion, the Bible, or Christ." England, Billy declared, has a "widespread interest in religion," and may be on the verge of a "moral and spiritual revival...
According to ancient doctrine, Hirohito is the 124th direct descendant of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. All his childhood was a drill in the warrior-centered Shinto religion. When he was eleven, his grandfather, the Emperor, died, and General Nogi, one of Hirohito's beloved tutors, gave him a final traumatic lesson in Shinto. After sitting with him for more than three hours and reviewing the boy's studies, the old general went home to his wife. First, the couple purified themselves in Shinto rites. Then the general took a dagger, dispatched his wife, and eviscerated himself...