Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly, because our knowledg is shrouded in mysticism and superstition. How many of our young people shrug off the entire subject of religion simply because they have had no opportunity for clear thinking along these lines? If we could but once separate the dogma of worship from the necessary basic understanding of the origins and growth of religion, I believe most people would begin thinking about it as a part of their own lives...
Then Ernest Thompson Seton had a vision that would restore all the youth of the world to nature. He blueprinted the organization of the Boy Scouts (with whose high command he later quarreled). Almost inevitably, the life and nature worship of the Indians obsessed him more & more. There seemed no other way out of civilization's ills...
Synge was, to be sure, having fun in The Playboy. He knew peasant Ireland, he knew both the folk capacity for hero worship and the folk craving to be a hero; a sophisticated romantic himself, he understood the primitive hunger for romance. Hence The Playboy is a whole series of fantastic, delicately mocking jokes and psychological touches...
...Galesworthy once pointed out, the good biographer and the good critic are almost as rare as the unicorn because of a weakness of many to forego sentimental impulses. Further, he must steel himself against the susceptibilities of ancestor worship...
...Christie tells a good deal about Syria, about archaeology, and about herself. Christie fans will find some clues to the origin of various matters in her mystery stories of the period. There is, for example, the gentle cult of the Yezidis, some of whom are hired as diggers. They worship Shaitan (Satan), whom they believe God has placed in charge of the world. No Christie reader will fail to recognize the prototype of Mr. Shaitana, a curiously devilish figure in Christie's Cards on the Table...