Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Communists also paid another kind of price. By choosing for their attack the time of Tet, the sacred family time of the year for the Vietnamese, they undoubtedly alienated major portions of the population. They also brought bullets and bombs into the very midst of heavily populated areas, causing...
Mooing Herd. He was not alone. As budgetary meetings of the full Cabinet approached their 24th hour, the Evening Standard reported that "the whole mooing herd of the government's once-sacred cows was driven to 10 Downing Street." The result, said the Standard, was "much slaughtering." If Wilson...
Recently he sat at his dressing room piano after a rehearsal at the Met and sketched a bravado musical self-portrait with his favorite Strauss works. He struck a theme from Don Juan: an image for the dark, liquid eyes, flaring nostrils and smoldering visage that prompted one of his...
Confused & Eclectic. The goal of religious hippies is union with God, whom they envision as a "cosmic consciousness." Despite its bizarre aspects, a surprising number of clergymen see the hippie faith as a genuine spiritual impulse. "Hippieness has all the marks of a new religious movement," writes Harvard Theologian Harvey...
Taught mostly at the graduate level, the programs require students to be as familiar with secular writing as sacred. At the Methodists' Emory University in Atlanta, the first-year curriculum includes a study of drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare; next spring, the university's celebrated Christian atheist, Thomas...