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...exposure to Harry Truman's views on the major personalities and events of his time. Miller makes no real attempt to go beyond the anecdotes--interesting as they are--to work at some sort of psycho-historical interpretation. His admiration of Truman is so intense it approaches hero-worship. The result is that Miller's questions are largely set-ups, which fail to press Truman in the least, and merely afford the ex-President an opportunity to display his nobility of purpose and character...
...lived some six centuries before Christ. Zoroaster's exact teaching is obscure but, as passed down by the Parsis, it is basically a vision of life as conflict between a spirit of goodness and light-Ahura Mazda -and a spirit of evil and darkness-Ahriman. The Parsis worship Ahura Mazda in the form of fire, one of three sacred elements. Because the earth is also sacred (as is water), they choose to bury only the bones of their dead-after the flesh has been stripped away in the towers of silence...
...homemade prayer assemblies have ignited an enthusiasm for worship services that is unusual for modern France. "I thought no one was interested in religion any more," says Abbé Gobert. "Now, in my old age, my parishioners are active in the church and really participate. I have volunteers for everything. I let it all come from them." At Rodlinghem, a permanent committee of 20 prepares the service, but rotates some tasks among other parishioners so that as many as 150 can participate each year. The enthusiasm has spiked over into the regular Masses, in which the congregants now take...
...prayer assemblies have been started in eight dioceses in France, and will almost certainly spread to more. Advocates of the practice, like Bishop Henri Derouet of Sées in Normandy, recognize that people worship best in their own communities. "If they have to go some other place to Mass, they do not feel at home," says Derouet, "and eventually they stop going." There are critics, of course. While lay-led Catholic services are commonplace in mission countries like Africa, and have become popular in priest-short areas such as East Germany, some of the French clergy still see them...
...Eskimo and North-Coast Indian cultures is their special relationship with the natural world around them. Reflected in the forms is a spirit of a union with nature--of men and women belonging with the land, watched by animal gods who offer protection during the winter in return for worship...