Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them to surrender their way of life. In the year 168 B.C., the Maccabees launched a revolt against their Syrian overlords, the purpose of which was the preservation of and the right to practice one's faith. Had the Maccabees not fought this war for liberty of the spirit or had they lost, Judaism would have perished and Christianity would never have been born. There is, therefore, historical justice in the fact that for several centuries the Christian church observed Aug. 1 as a festival entitled "The Birthday of the Maccabees" and that the historical books bearing their names...
...eyes all that is awry in Graham's portraits. Often as not, they are littered with cabalistic signs and symbols from alchemy or numerology. In one self-portrait titled Apotheosis, Graham bears on his shoulders the sun and the moon, alchemists' symbols for the soul and the spirit. In addition, he has added horns to his head, possibly to indicate the union of devil...
...Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead...
...L.B.J.'s ubiquitous aides moved in quickly to muffle any signs of schism. Johnson's men were running things again, in tandem with Daley, but they were far less conspicuous this time?as if they sensed that though they controlled the convention's machinery, they did not control its spirit...
...this crisis, Ceausescu has become leader of the country in spirit as well as in title. Rumanians are clearly satisfied that the party leadership has refused to knuckle under. Ceausescu thus has accomplished in Rumania something like what Dubček earlier achieved in Czechoslovakia: the party has acquired its first genuinely widespread popularity. The Czechoslovak ambassador in Bucharest has a fat file containing the names of local families who have volunteered to take in stranded Czechs. A Rumanian writer who spent seven years in jail for organizing a demonstration in support of the rebel Hungarians in 1956 reported that...