Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been mired in hyper-skepticism. They have spent too much time throwing out old ideas without replacing them adequately. This situation reflects the influence of positivism, which instead of being maintained as a healthy questioning spirit designed to eliminate foggy metaphysics, has too often been transformed into a worship of the tangible and measurable, and an inordinate suspicion of whatever requires some imagination to be grasped. Despite the fact that many philosophers recognize this distortion, we are still left with a legacy of rashly discarded philosophies and weakly contrived replacements; and our hasty, materialistic, opportunistic way of life provides...
...phrase "Godless Harvard" is a myth; but observing from my more secular position I am forced to disagree. It's not such a myth that well over half the seats in local churches, including the one funded by the University and led by Gomes, are regularly empty during worship; or that an instructor can't arouse peals of sympathetic laughter by using the phrase. In listening to hundreds of lectures in over 40 courses this year, I found that only the subject of death rivals religion as an object of student laughter--always in response to the lecturer's deliberate...
...Norman Vincent Peale and the Rev. Billy Graham were for a time well publicized White House habitues. The East Room Sunday worship service was a Nixon creation. The President was an enthusiastic patron of the various prayer breakfasts round Washington...
...most Japanese over 40, including TIME Correspondent S. Chang, who attended primary school in prewar Japan. "Teachers in the main were well trained and the system, on the academic side, did well," he recalled last week. "But it did far better in brainwashing pupils in the cult of emperor worship. The whole six-year compulsory education was dedicated to fukoku kyohei [enrich the nation, strengthen soldiers]. Boys in the class were shaven-pated like Japanese soldiers in their barracks. Like soldiers, too, they were expected to snap to attention each time the teacher dropped that sacred word, tenno [emperor]. They...
...Awoke in a kind of vision," he jot ted in his diary in 1931. "It was like the Annunciation! Suddenly I saw what photography could be ... a tremendously potent pure art form." His effort was to take photography away from its documentary role. A kind of ecstatic nature worship has provided the impetus for Adams' work since the '30s, not only on the large scale but on the small as well: witness an image of stems floating on black water, a pattern as subtle and vivacious as those of old Japanese textiles...