Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...institutions and our civilization, in the sins which have reached their appalling climax in the torture chambers of Europe's prison camps. [These] camps spell doom. But it is not simply the doom of the Nazis; it is the doom of man unless he can be brought to worship at the feet of the living...
...fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community with gristmill, barns, shops, houses of worship, sawmills, a tannery and a distillery. To keep his workers' energy channeled and profits limited, absolute celibacy was the rule in Father Rapp's Utopia...
...Beaverbrook. But last month the Beaver decided that the foreign war was going well enough for his Express to pay more attention to the domestic wars, and opened his recruiting campaign for the Conservative Party with a frontpage editorial: "The Daily Express . . . refuses to conform to the current worship of the state. . . ." Leftist Sydney Elliott decided that it was time to go. Said he last week: "It was easy to part with the Beaver on political grounds, but it took a lot of courage to make a personal break . . . the old man is a fellow of great charm." He thereupon...
...that congregations like to sing. Listening to Palestrina, however purely performed, is not the same thing at all. Many a churchgoer has come to feel that the service is already less for the congregation than for the choir, and he resents any fresh attempts to turn his place of worship into what is beginning to look like a mere concert hall...
Missionary Iglehart believes that, no matter what happens, emperor worship cannot be wiped out for decades. Thus, those who favor lynching Hirohito should think twice, because "disgrace or harm to the present emperor would probably serve merely to augment the honor of the imperial line. ... No foreigner can hope to [disentangle] the politico-religious element in Japanese life...