Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero Worship. In Kansas City, Mo., after falling from a 20-ft. rock wall, Robert Thompson, 41, was treated for eye and back injuries, explained that he had been so impressed by the conquest of Mt. Everest that he wanted to do some climbing himself...
...Vatican revealed that, in response to requests from all over Italy, Pope Pius has proclaimed St. Cassianus of Imola the patron saint of Italian stenographers. Legendary martyrdom of St. Cassianus (dates uncertain), who taught writing: stabbing by the pens of his students when he refused to worship Roman gods...
...Body Worship." Six cassocked priests, accompanied by 200 of their supporters, turned up at the gate, carrying picket signs that read, "Stop this body-worship." Then another group ran a fishing boat close inshore, a few hundred feet from the Argentina, and tried to storm the beachhead from behind. This disturbance distressed Athens Police Chief Nicholas Tsaousis, who was inside the nightclub, in white jacket, strictly in line of duty. "Pick a few of them up," he commanded...
M.I.T.'s officers liked the auditorium, but they balked at the chapel. Said Building Committee Chairman Robert M. Kimball : "Seeing it for the first time, a person wonders if this is really a church. Worship doesn't mean the same thing to all people. It wasn't until we began to get the feel of what Saarinen was trying to create that we really appreciated the design." After months of discussion, M.I.T.'s corporation finally approved the chapel. Work on the auditorium has already started...
True to the anti-theological attitude of Quakerism, Maurer bears down hard on Western religion, and especially Protestantism, "which at times has given more emphasis to religious concepts than to worship of God. It early assumed a determinism as rigid as that which sciences were later to develop. It gave a new emphasis to abstract analysis of God, evil, suffering ... It made God a formal rather than a creative absolute, for it used him as an explanation of the universe and not simply, as in many other religions, as the fountain of all things...