Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hero to Worship. At Caracas' principal high school. Betancourt studied under a young psychology teacher named Rómulo Gallegos. A brilliant writer-he later turned out the classic novel of Venezuelan backlands life, Doña Bárbara-and an inspiring teacher, Gallegos became the idol of Betancourt, as the prototype of a proud man willing to risk criticizing Dictator...
...European matrix of Comte is in large part Bonald and the French reaction, the effort to challenge the libertarian apriorism of the Enlightenment with a social empiricism that denies the Enlightenment values, and if Holmes worshiped Disraeli, he could, up to a point, worship Comte as well...
...Judaism, and told them that the children of Israel had completed their millennium of suffering for having forsaken Jehovah and were soon to return to Zion to await the coming of the Messiah. The Araucanians observed Jewish dietary laws, feast and fast days, separated men and women for worship, even broke down their tribe into classic biblical castes. They elected a leader, one Luis Bravo, who met biblical qualifications: strong, healthy, married, with at least one son. And though they did not call themselves Jews, but members of the "Israel Church of the New Covenant," they yearned for contact with...
...powerful voice is superbly controlled and especially well-suited to Isolde's demanding music. In fact, many musicians have cited her bright, clear soprano as more appropriate even than Flagstad's to the role. Irving Kolodin, the musical pundit of the Saturday Review, added his share to the heroine-worship of Nilsson, now the fashion among New York critics, by pointing out her superb acting and imposing stage deportment. All in all, one can find few flaws in her tempestuous, queenly Isolde. Though one might complain about her occasional tendency to sing sharp, the fact remains that the New York...
...attachment to useless things." The Japanese mind is obsessed with the transience of things, which may help to explain both gimcrack exports and the scroll paintings of ukiyo-e ("the floating world") of the theater and the geisha. This wars with the principle of permanence reflected in the Shinto worship of nation and ancestor. Innovations change the Japanese scene without changing the Japanese...