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...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...
...spiritual leaders of the worldwide Protestant community so lost their perspective that they are willing to trade their integrity for the approbation of a few Soviet lackeys? How can they look at the plight of the millions of Soviet citizens who have been imprisoned or denied freedom of worship and dare to compare that nation's policies favorably with ours? We may not be perfect, but as a people we have a great respect for justice and integrity...
...revision, but in dealing with a bushel of political statements on everything from nuclear arms (yes to a freeze) to Palestinian rights (an emphatic endorsement), they never had a chance to act on the rewritten statement. Nonetheless, the delegates were enthusiastic about the increased emphasis on prayer and multicultural worship at the assembly. They were also hopeful that a joint statement produced last year by the council's theology commission might provide the eventual basis for intercommunion...
...when Ian Curtis took his own life. New Order became a Doors for the rock sophisticate and Curtis a Jim Morrison figure. But New Order gradually moved to disassociate itself from the death-worship that is the bread and potatoes of second-generation rock fandom and by doing that may have poisoned its career. After a Joy Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black...
...18th century New England, small groups of Congregationalists rebelled against such doctrines as eternal punishment and the worship of Jesus Christ and, indeed, against the very idea of binding creeds. The separate movements that became known as Universalism and Unitarianism originally thought of themselves as Christian. But later on each developed contingents of "theists," who worshiped a vague or impersonal God, and "humanists," who did not believe...