Word: worship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among those who stayed on, there was a paralyzing sense of frustration and fatalism. Life was not only hard-it was dull. To many Irishmen, the perverse, pervasive mediocrity of their culture was typified by Gaelic-worship...
...legislative bodies, tax exemptions for religious institutions, religious mottoes on currency or the "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Wrote Justice Arthur Goldberg: "Neither the state nor this court can or should ignore the significance of the fact that a vast portion of our people believe in and worship God, and that many of our legal, political and personal values derive historically from religious teachings...
Consumed or not, few jazz disciples know much about the music. Since they are given more to worship than appreciation, they seldom develop an ear-only an attitude. Often, as in his current series of seminars at Manhattan's Five Spot, Monk, for one, will spend a whole night horsing around on his piano while his sidemen accompany him with all the enthusiasm of cops frisking drunks. On other nights he plays brilliantly and the sidemen follow with insight and devotion-but the applause is just the same, Monk's audience is far too devoted...
Moved by such forthright oratory, the 840 commissioners (delegates) at the 175th Presbyterian General Assembly in Des Moines last week overwhelmingly approved a proposed amendment to the church constitution, declaring that Presbyterians "are obligated to welcome into fellowship" anyone who desires to share in their worship, and that refusal on the basis of "color, origin or worldly condition" causes "a scandal to the Gospel." With less unanimity, they went on to take a strong stand, roughly like the U.S. Supreme Court's, against Bible-reading and prayers in public schools...
They used to joke in Lexington, Mass., that new residents didn't need to join a country club-they already had the Hancock Congregational Church. The gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message...