Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word that we will return this government to civilian rule, but I will not hand it over in chaos. I'll hand it over to a democratic government when I am sure that anyone can move about freely and that, irrespective of your ethnic origin, color or religion, you can express your opinion without being intimidated...
...beard. As an innovation, the crusade sponsored an auditorium-sized psychedelic "coffeehouse" in a building a block from the Garden. There, longhaired groups blared "spiritual" rock, minishifted girls sang on a platform, and listeners sipped soft drinks and talked with some of Graham's 1,000 counsellors about religion...
Much of this has to do with the image of sex and death, which presents hilarity on the one side and melancholia on the other. The confusion has been blamed squarely on the Catholic Church, but a country usually gets the religion that suits it. The Irish attitude to sex goes back a long way. Vivian Mercier, in his indispensable book The Irish Comic Tradition, talks of ubiquitous stone carvings depicting a creature called the Sheela-na-gig, half-whore and half-crone, with enormous sexual parts and withered breasts. This would be the same enchantress of ancient legend...
With four-fifths of the country owned by Englishmen or their clients after 1662, a small farmer could not afford even to think about sex. Marriage for him was early death. And he clung to a religion that often tended to confirm his caution. The 18th century priests, trained in the flesh-hating Jansenist seminaries of France, gave him the rationale for what he had to do anyway. It was not a specifically Catholic matter. Protestant churches in Scotland and Wales, countries also under the British thumb, were equally repressive...
...Costley, a former TWA hostess who is a part-time religion teacher and Little League batting coach, is anything but extravagant. She asks her butcher to trim fat off meats so that she will not have to pay for it. Still, she spends $85 a week for food and other household items, or twice as much as four years ago. The Costleys not long ago added a porch, patio and basketball court to their ten-room, $46,000 house, at a cost of $4,200, or $1,200 more than they would have paid in 1967. "But I still...