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Word: waykwoom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classroom-even though his formidable German accent and even more formidable concepts left hearers with an impression which U.S. Theologian Walter M. Horton has described as "respectful mystification." (It was hours after first listening to Tillich, recalls Horton, "that I realized that the word 'waykwoom,' many times repeated, and the key to the whole lecture, was meant to represent the English word 'vacuum.' ") But gradually, Tillich learned to communicate with America's would-be believers. Gradually, Tillich's massive theological system began to take shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Be or Not to Be | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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