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...know what the Americans think of them, and they respond with mixed emotions. Almost without exception they worship American materialism. . . . Where the Americans go, so does money, and things to spend the money on-movies, records, radios, clothes, cars, motorcycles. Of course, for as long as you care about them, you can spend the American dollars on uniquely Lao status symbols and valuables-silk, gold ornaments, huge, lavish parties for all your family and friends...
Prospective freshman at Harvard are issued a booklet describing the wonders of the place, and containing a brief paragraph from a statement of the Corporation to the effect that Harvard is interdenominational, and recognizes the right of members of all faiths to worship freely in Memorial Church. Most of them never get to Harvard, and few of those who do remember this little statement, or realize its significance. For it marked the beginning of the end of Nathan Pusey as a president with a constituency...
...cliches are worn but enduring: Italian Catholics seldom go to church but worship the Pope. German Catholics are fond enough of church, but mostly in terms of the family and the home: the good German hausfrau is supposed to dedicate herself with equal concern to Kinder, Kuche and Kirche-children, kitchen and church. Now two new polls-a major study of Catholics in Rome and a massive poll of West German Catholics-challenge the validity of the old clichés. Germans show a deeper spiritual sensitivity and more concern for their fellow man than they are generally given credit...
...children baptized and 94.1% send their ch'ldren to First Communion. Mass attendance -between 35% and 40% every Sunday, 62% at least once a month-is much higher than tourists might expect, Pin and Cavallin noted, because tourists see only the churches in central Rome, while most Romans worship in the peripheral areas of the city. But attendance at Mass is often not highly motivated. "One gets the impression," concluded the sociologists, "that the church is often a meetingplace where, while you absolve a duty, you also have a chance to greet friends . . . Rare is the church where...
Dickens' feeling of being let down by his mother was the first of several jolts to his self-indulgent idealization of women. At 21 he tried to place a girl named Maria Beadnell in the role of an angelic object of worship. She ended by jilting him. Later he cast his wife-the bland, slightly perplexed daughter of one of his former editors-as the traditional loyal helpmeet. She seems to have ended by boring him. The result was that in his fiction he was never able to display a fully rounded view of women. Even his most memorable...