Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt," runs an old Spanish saying. That is only one of dozens of attempts to define the psychology of the mustache. Scientists examining the ticklish subject have offered assorted explanations: mustaches are telltale signs of political conservatism or father worship, emblems of confident nonconformity, or "epigamic adornments designed to win mates, like phosphorescence in fireflies...
Adept as he is at sleight-of-hand tales, Aymé is even better at psychological feet-of-clay stories. The title piece, The Proverb, is about a boy who has been brought up to worship his father but also fears and dislikes him. One day the father insists on writing a school essay for his son. The teacher openly ridicules the effort as a piece of rhetorical bombast, gives the boy the lowest mark in the class. On tenterhooks, the proud father asks his son the grade. Tempted to deflate the stuffy old humbug, the boy lies instead...
Psychologist Shand had a special warning: social scientists, in the view of clergymen, often accept superficial criteria of what constitutes a religious person-"such as affiliation with a religious body, coming to public worship regularly, receiving the sacraments, having peace of mind, having maturity, and being converted...
...Maxfield does display a rather healthy reaction against the worship of incommunicable individual creativity practiced by some of his colleagues. Their romanticism, he feels, is merely a narcissistic exhibition of a self-assumed superiority. Maxfield has the modest aim of stimulating his audience, but yet his self-denigration cannot fully hide a potentiality for deeper expression...
...There has been a kind of five-phase decline of religion via pseudo religion, as Fitch sees it. Man began with God, "the only true faith," and then switched to the surrogate faiths of Nature, Humanity, Society (in the form of nationalism) and finally the Self. Today self-worship is in acute crisis, argues Fitch, and "atheism is at the end of its tether...