Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These attitudes are for the most part expressed visually. A solemn procession of little kids, including Seryozha, watch an older friend unconsciously immitate the mannerisms of his sailor uncle, whose bearing, imagined adventures and magnificent tatoos they all worship. The camera follows the delinquent escapades of Seryozha and his friends with the eye of a fellow child. Fast action and disaster, hasty exits and final parental retribution. Seryozha's loneliness during the first few weeks of his mother's marriage isolates him from the rest of the children: he is shown on the fringe of groups, always a little absent...
...lives as peacefully as any other veteran. Author Davis makes an attempt to prove that Puller was railroaded out of the service by Marine ex-Commandant Lemuel Shepherd because he did not fit in with the new corps. The accusation, completely unproved, seems to stem more from hero worship of Puller than from a case against Shepherd. In fact, Davis' entire book is one unabashed gush of hero worship. But there is plenty of hero to worship. Said one Pacific veteran: "We all thought he was a wonderful son of a bitch...
...dedicated believers will bring new life to the church-although it may not be a church that many today recognize. "The temple is destined to become much less congested. The decrease in traffic will be accompanied by the increase of small but solemn assemblies engaged in the kind of worship that expresses its Te Deum Laudamus in the market place and civil courts. The throngs of the disenchanted will be replaced by the communities of disciplined Christians equipped to be the church as they invade the social orders...
...small; only if he were to become an ant himself could he help-and he could not do that because he was not God. "But when God decided that he wanted to help man," cried Billy, his voice rising, "he became man himself. That man we know and worship as the Lord Jesus, who was crucified to save us." Said one listening Catholic: "This is the most beautiful explanation of the Incarnation that I've ever heard...
...Ahasuerus won his peace? By kneeling, Lagerkvist seems to be saying, not to worship but to drink...