Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Gazette, the official university weekly, a schedule of the High Holiday services and asked that it be printed in the Gazettes of September 5th and 12. This announcement was ignored. However, in the Gazette of the 12, in an article describing activities of freshman week, it announced a "worship service on Sunday the 14th, at Memorial Church, for freshmen and parents." Then, skipping our services, it went on to say, "as the first day of registration, September 15th, is also Yom Kippur, students who wish to observe the holiday may register on the 16th or 17th." Apart from ignoring...
...usually to be found studying at home, playing tennis with Gayle or tending the small garden plot lent them by a neighbor. Gayle, whose father is a junior high school principal in Catonsville, Md., met Mike when they were students at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. They both worship in an Episcopal church, and Mike is preparing himself for the Christian youth work he one day hopes to take...
...away, as I guess was only to be expected--no one tried to stop them, but everyone cheered the dude. When the games get dull--American League baseball seems sloppy and unspirited to me, though maybe that is just my prejudice, taught from infancy to hate the Yankees and worship Willie Mays--you can sit around waiting for a fight. Pick out a Yankee game. In the proper season, the half of the crowd that's not rowdy kids or their grown-up counterparts will be B.U. students from Long Island, heavily into New York--they would never think...
...inherent despicableness of this character with a strong does of the ridiculous, and his Tartuffe becomes a true figure of satire. Orgon, although the personification of another variety of folly, elicits very different reactions. Played by John Cross, he is a pathetic, even pitiable character, grossly misguided in his worship of a false idol...
...watery supernaturalism. It is one thing for Kelderek and his primitive fellow tribesmen-a few skeptics to the contrary -to believe the bear is a god, quite another for author and reader to pretend to believe it. This pretense is what Adams insists on, and it smacks of Pan worship, that Victorian silliness in which refined city dwellers pretended that they glimpsed the wicked, goat-footed god as they strolled through an orderly countryside...