Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, the nation took a dangerous step backwards, toward the day when worship in public schools was considered acceptable. Under pressure from fundamentalist religious leaders, President Reagan formally endorsed constitutional amendment to allow voluntary school prayer. The President's Bible Belt supporters were plainly ecstatic. Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell exulted. "After 20 years of the expulsion of Almighty God from the public schools of our nation. I think this is the light of the tunnel we have all hoped and worked and prayed...
...mild ex-Unitarian clairvoyant dead 100 years, Emerson is still capable of stirring surprising hostility. In a baccalaureate address to his senior class last year, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti blamed Emerson for the ugliest tendency of the American character - "a worship of power." Emerson, he said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche...
...prove invaluable to churchmen and scholars everywhere. But it will also trigger new controversies. For example, Barrett concludes that Brazil, the world's biggest Catholic country, in fact has 11.4 million people on the Catholic rolls who are really Protestants, and 60 million who dabble in the worship of spirits...
...dance their way through a montage of Bowie hits, acting out strange scenes of violence and alienation while crooning into mikes about being "heroes for just one day," we realize that what we're seeing is not so much a theatrical event as a kind of elaborate private worship...
...seem, at long last, to be headed for a humbler architecture of worship, rather than an ostentatious worship of architecture...