Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admixture of Poles and Slavs and other groups. In many respects, the Scandinavians, long the largest single group in the state, have shaped Minnesota's character. They, together with its large Anglo-Saxon and German strain, account for a deep grain of sobriety and hard work, a near-worship for education and a high civic tradition in Minnesota life. Such qualities helped to produce the intelligent calm?and the stolidity?that characterize the efficient Minnesota atmosphere. It is telling that the University of Minnesota is probably the dominant and most prestigious institution in the state. Its president, Malcolm Moos, sees...
THIS ADORATION of the President was not limited to Magruder alone. John N. Mitchell, testifying in his arrogant splendor, also expounded a doctrine of Nixon worship. Mitchell said that the President would have revealed the facts if he had known them and thus would have ruined his chances for re-election. If one overlooks the fact that both of the assumptions implicit in that statement are shaky ones at best, one sees a statement of a loyalty so lofty that it transcends all laws until it falls back on itself of its own weight, destroying both its bearer...
...admires so much, with the religious dimensions of everyday life. "You can't be a poet and not have any religious feeling," she explains. "I don't care for institutionalized religion, but I'm very interested now in the history of religion; the changes in ancient civilizations from worshipping goddesses to the worship of male gods, the evolution of patriarchal religion, such as Otto Ranke has traced...
Junk. Perhaps it has something to do with an obsession of Leni's that prefigures Au.'s method. As a girl in a convent school, Leni learned to worship the orderly function of her organs, and the instruction had the force of an epiphany. Later she undertook her life's work: reproducing, with a child's paintbox and brush, "a cross section of one layer" of a nun's retina-6,000,000 cones and 100 million tiny rods...
...Christianity. St. Paul wrote, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race." What is new and startling is that hundreds of prominent athletes are practicing locker-room piety alongside the swingers of sport. In a year when many church agencies are promoting evangelism, harnessing the hero worship of athletes is a clever way to make religion attractive to the young...