Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They tell-us not to perform the sacred ceremonies that we have handed down from generation to generation--they tell us it all evil devil-worship, and that we're going to go to hell," he said. "God made us, but the missionaries seem to think God hasn't completed His job Mohawks have hair and ten fingers like everyone else...
...Religion: "There are more than 800,000 Roman Catholics in North Viet Nam, and they still worship freely. Some old customs prevail: Men and women sit on opposite sides of the nave of Hanoi's cathedral, their bicycles clogging the aisles leading to the altar...
...composer laughed off the insult -possibly because he saw worship in the puffy face of the speaker. Levant soon became a freeloading guest of George and Ira Gershwin until Leonore, Ira's wife, ordered him out of the house. Levant rose, paused, then sat down. "I'm not going," he told Leonore. "Why?" "Because," he mourned, "I have no place to go." Oscar stayed another two years...
...social history of a remote and truly enigmatic world, beginning with a fascinating, leisurely description of traditional Vietnamese society. Life centered totally on the village or hamlet where a man had a fixed place and derived his whole identity from his link to the village and the worship of his ancestors. Says FitzGerald: "Americans live in a society of replaceable parts-in theory, anyone can become President or sanitary inspector-but the Vietnamese lived in a society of particular people...
...Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international talks to bring about a closer mutual relationship. Now the two teams of representatives have issued a joint report in London "unanimously" urging increased intercommunion, more joint worship and even integrated ministries between the two groups. The report notes that the two bodies now recognize each other as basically "catholic" and "apostolic." In the wake of Roman Catholic talks with both Anglicans and Lutherans, the report could help pave the way for intercommunion among all three groups within...