Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critic Kenneth Tynan wonders whether Brechtian drama "is a gigantic tribute to motherhood." Brecht's men are usually drunks, cynics or compromisers, his heroines "mostly instruments of salvation . . . Did Brecht, as rumor insists, spurn his father and worship his mother? If so, it supports the old hypothesis that the men who adore their mothers lean toward the Left, while those who idolize their fathers lean toward the Right." Whether or not Tynan is correct about Brecht, he certainly has the makings of a fascinating psychological parlor game...
...another personal cult is precisely what we do not need. Hero worship is not only unbecoming but unhelpful. It can only lead to an unhealthy disillusionment as President Kennedy engages in the awkward shifts, evasions and compromises that inevitably accompany the exercise of great power. Let us remember Lord Acton-and take care...
...other leftist intellectuals of the period, many of whom saw in Socialism an outlet for idealistic views of human potential. Howard Fast, for example, upon leaving the Communist party in 1956, denounced it in a book called The Naked God. The title succinctly sums up Fast's attitude of worship, hic communism of illusion, an attitude obverse to Brecht's communism of disillusion...
...India's 300 million cultivated acres. "Man eats cows in other countries, but here the cow is eating man," says a Congress party leader. But he says it in private. Calling for more money for more rest homes for old cows, Nehru himself says: "The West does not worship the cow but takes care of it. We worship it but do not take care...
Church Music (1952), best displays what Davison called his "gift of invective," for its lucid, often deliciously polemical style projects well-defined standards for sacred music that are based on a very clear idea of the role of music in worship. Davison minces no words in describing the devotional habits and musical ideas of the average layman and concludes that "our churches are literally asylums for the harboring of the great army of the apostles of musical mediocrity...