Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somewhere in every man there is the capacity for worship and prayer, for the apprehension of God and the love of him," wrote Manhattan's famed Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Praying is a practice like breathing or eating." From Pentecostal ministers roaring hallelujahs to Greek Orthodox choirs chanting the Divine Liturgy in four-part harmony, from a widow silently mourning her dead husband to a child asking for a wanted toy, the nation last week was praying...
...creed was faith in the miracle of man's individuality, his capacity for delight in beauty, in spring, in flowers, in girls. Its galaxy of devils, which grew as Cummings observed the modern world ("a hoax of clocks and calendars"), included dry intellects, science, mass thought, security worship, Sigmund Freud-everything inside man or outside him that tends to limit his individualism, to reduce his sense of wonder. The opposition was total...
...condensations. But the New English Bible that is being translated by British Protestant scholars is no such trifle. It is a serious effort to create an accurate Bible in contemporary prose, and its sponsors hope that it will be good enough to replace the King James Version in Christian worship services. The New Testament went on sale last year; the Old will not be ready for publication until...
...convinced, although the N.E.B. New Testament has sold about 4,500,000 copies and is used in some Anglican church services. Last week one Church of England layman with some competence in English letters wrote to the Times, protesting against the use of the New English Bible in worship. "Before such substitution becomes common practice, it is to be hoped that the style of this translation may be improved. I am not here raising any doctrinal question, but write simply as a lover of the English language." The complainant: Poet T. S. Eliot...
Worse, whale-worship breeds conspiracies...