Word: unfallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distances in the universe might be "God's quarantine precautions" to "prevent the spiritual infection" of fallen mankind from spreading. David Fetcho of the cult-fighting Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, Calif., has developed similar ideas. He insists in the S.C.P. Journal that it is unlikely that an "unfallen" race would visit earth. The reason: God would not want to contaminate the visitors with sin. Moreover, they could teach us nothing that God has not already said in the Bible. If races are "fallen," he reasons, they would lack the supertechnology to span the light years and make contact...
Somehow, it's seemed unnecessary to ask that question of dance. Movement has preserved its mystery longest; the essence of dance hasn't been cerebral, but corporeal. Leaps done with the legs, turns of the body--this sort of creation is uniquely sincere. Blake called touch the only unfallen sense. Dance is perhaps the only innocent...