Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 15,000 worshipers stayed away, and 24 leading professional, political and religious Arabs of Jerusalem called for a cam paign of noncooperation with Israel. Alarmed, the Israelis canceled censorship of the sermons-and transferred responsibility for dealing with the Moslem religious community from the Israeli Ministry of Religion to Dayan's Defense Ministry, which, not surprisingly, is vastly respected by the Arabs...
...hires the singer to munch a choice pippin on the telly; soon, everybody's awash in applesauce. The clergy wants to push God? Jones, in a mod getup vaguely suggesting the Blood of the Lamb, sings Jesus songs to a screaming multitude. Eventually he gets a kind of religion himself. To a crowd of dignitaries assembled to pay him homage, he mumbles "I hate you," and vanishes into oblivion with the One Girl (Jean Shrimpton) Who Really Understands...
...conference plans to bring together experts from the fields of medicine, law, the social sciences, philosophy and religion. Participants will include six Harvard professors, Dean Griswold of the Law School, Mary Bunting, President of Radcliffe, and such figures as Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Whitney Young, Executive Director of the Urban League...
Lady for Burning. Two things almost defeated her-Burton's stubborn inability to see the difference between Catholicism and any other religion, and his invincible interest in the theory of sex. She dealt with both problems in masterly fashion. When he died in 1890 at 79, she arranged for him to receive the last sacrament of the Roman Church. He had been dead for two hours, but the priest took her word that he was alive. Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose...
...book, Personality: A Psychological Interpretation, is considered the standard work in its field. Among his other well-known books are: The Individual and his Religion, and The Psychology of Rumor, which grew out of his World War II studies of morale and rumor among civilians...