Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success...
Following the trek, the group gathered at, their church, located on 11 Garden St., for an 11 a.m. worship and then a 2 p.m. lecture by George Hunston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity. Williams spoke about Hooker, who was succeeded by another famous Puritan leader. Thomas Shepard...
Happe added that the original function of the church 350 years ago is a place where Puritans could worship freely, is very similar to its function today. "The church emphasizes freedom," he said...
...French have long been celebrated for their enthusiastic worship of The Woman--the femina who is perfect, whose beauty and sex rating is sky-high. The petty irritation of what happens on their streets inevitably reflects that. But it also holds up a focusing lens to something we in this country are unable to perceive clearly from where we stand. We live with the same assumption, more wavery and ungraspable but just as deep-rooted, that separates women from people...
...English, who have flirted with Beatles music and the leveling principle, have returned to their ancient heritage of snobbism. They worship their ancestors and buy The Official Shane Ranger Handbook and dream of country houses and old money. They have a look, both wistful and satirical, at the Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, with its indispensable advice: "A tiara is never worn in a hotel, only at parties arranged in private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles...