Word: thyself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About four-fifths of the work on the chapel will be done by commercial contractors, who take a tolerant view of their moonlighting help. The volunteers themselves enjoy do-it-thyself chapel building -even though in some cases the motive is as much corporal as spiritual. "If we didn't believe in it," says Jay Johnson, an executive of Phillips Petroleum Co.. "we wouldn't be there. But besides, it's physically good for those who sit at a desk all day long...
This is the latest exposition of U.S. fiction's post-Socratic theorems: Find Thyself and Express Thyself. From Madison Avenue to Greenwich Village, from suburbia to Sunset Boulevard, the heroes of unnumbered novels are digging for their treasured psyches. In most instances, there is no treasure worth unearthing, all of which leads to another popular precept: Pity Thyself...
Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. The laureate of the wine-dark sea turns his sun-bedazzled eye on the islands of Corfu and Rhodes. To Durrell the Greek landscape lastingly utters one commandment: Know thyself...
...lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own wings to fly: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love If anybody, God above: At any rate, shalt never labour More than thyself to love thy neighbour...
...theology based solely on masculine experience may well be irrelevant." She offers no specific suggestions for a female theology of the future, but perhaps what lies ahead is a theology of enlightened self-esteem emphasizing the final words of Christ's commandment: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself...