Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Sperry's soft-voiced denunciation of non-liturgical sloppiness in the U.S.: "The Prayer Book, with its implicit pledge that . . . the offices shall be read decently and in order, is probably the greatest single source of attraction to non-Episcopalians. In the worship of the non-liturgical churches far too many of our transactions are accomplished in disorder, and occasionally approach aesthetic indecency. Popular taste in America has improved appreciably in recent years. . . . This improved taste penalizes churches, particularly in the great cities, which persist in the cults of ugliness, untidiness and sentimentalism...
Talking Pottery. The Mochicas, and most other ancient Peruvians, buried sculptured pots with their dead. With painstaking detail, and sometimes with hair-raising sound effects, these pots show birth and death, work and play, war and worship. One famed example of the Peruvian pottery art shows a surgeon at work on a woman's back. When filled with water and tipped back & forth, the pot gives a long-drawn sigh, then a loud scream of pain...
Many signs now point to the Church's swing back. At weddings and funerals Chinese Catholics may bow to tablets bearing the names of ancestors-if the priest is sure the gesture indicates only respect and is not tinged with Confucian worship...
...Morning worship service. The Memorial Church Special service for returning veterans and new students, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers. Each Sunday thereafter throughout the college year...
England's Edward II used to shock his court by an inordinate fondness for bathing and for an ambitious Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston. But after his wife, Isabella of France, got fed up and had Edward murdered in 1327, the hero worship of the populace triumphed over the sour recollections of the aristocrats who had known him. Although he has never been canonized, Edward II became (like his forerunner, Edward "the Confessor," no kin) a royal "saint...