Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity, Catholics and Protestants have shared worship facilities on military bases and college campuses, but St. Mark's seems to be the first brand-new city parish that the two faiths have ever jointly sponsored. The moving spirit behind the venture is Waterman, who two years ago helped arrange a merger of his own First Presbyterian Church with a nearby United Church parish. Both churches had rundown plants and declining congregations; even together, they could barely afford the new church that Waterman felt was needed. Scouting around to see if other religious groups might be interested, Waterman eventually persuaded...
Semantic Problems. Limited to 15 participants, the living-room dialogues always start with a few brief prayers and Scripture readings. Topics picked for discussion range from church reform to the whys of different Christian ways of worship, although the talk commonly branches out into a free-and-easy dialogue on what the participants don't know about their neighbor's faith...
...major attempt of the traditional Asian mind to come to terms with the modern world. Industry has begun to change the country, "has even begun to instill a sense of time and punctuality-here and there. In the fall of every year, Hindu workmen decorate their workshops and literally worship the god in their machines. But the machine does not require worship; it requires hard work, precision and comprehension. Sensing a lack of these, many Indians are pessimistic about the future. "Everyone is' waiting for the Americanization of India," says Essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, "but what they are going...
...poorboy origin). Roosevelt demonstrated a characteristic of the classic hero, who, according to Historian Wecter, "envisages his era as a crisis, a drama of good versus evil, and himself as the man of destiny. In a sense, he must be a hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed, and the assassin's bullet cut it short before it was completed. But he, too, was a hero to himself. Visibly and with eloquence, he embodied the hope of a new start. His looks and his style, the glamour...
American hero worship is not necessarily nationalistic. Most Americans acknowledge Churchill as one of their greatest heroes, not only because he forged blood, toil, tears and sweat into victory, but because he seemed to embody, like a noble caricature, all the legendary qualities of the English. Not that pugnacity is essential. Americans see Pope John XXIII as a hero because he exuded love and managed to combine the saintly with the jolly. Many Americans would also accord the status of saint-hero to Albert Schweitzer, because they cherish the sentimental picture of the man who gave up the world...