Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here, rather than in China, Buddha grew to his tallest: a 175-ft.-high statue hewn from a sandstone cliff in the Afghan valley of Bamian-a display of gigantism inherited more from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian...
Writings of Sinyavsky whose pseudonym is Abram Tertz, and Daniel, whose pseudonym is Nikolai Arzhak, have been smuggled into Europe in recent years. "Both are very hostile to what's sacred in the Soviet system," Berman said. Sinyavsky, for example, once likened Lenin to "a dog baying at the moon...
To the tourist in India, the magician's rope trick is merely another clever demonstration that the hand is quicker than the eye. To Professor Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago divinity school, the fakir's fakery is the vestige of an ancient religious rite with highly...
In the subtle art of establishing the sacred origin of profane events, Rumanian-born Scholar Eliade has no peer. A pipe-smoking polymath who speaks six languages and writes fluently in three, Eliade, 58, is a prolific novelist as well as chairman of Chicago's history of religion department...
Some don't even consider their own jobs as sacred. Blanning, a graduate of Cornell Law School, is still considering taking the Massachusetts Bar Examination. He predicts a day when churches will have developed an ordained clergy who do things other than routine pastoral chores. "Half my counselling as a...