Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prayer Book, for which Dr. Kaplan had edited traditional prayers to give "modern Jews a form of worship in which they could participate. . . . Defying basic Orthodox tenets, Dr. Kaplan stated in his introduction that: i) Jews are not a divinely chosen people; and 2) the Torah is not "supernaturally inspired...
...worship guys who are great guys," Dick said yesterday. "From now until the day I die when a Marine passes me in the street I'm ready to salute...
...first big speech of Britain's general election campaign. Cried he: "My friends. I must tell you that the socialist policy [the Labor Party's] is abhorrent to the British idea of freedom. . . . There can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and abject worship of the state...
Lush & Gush. By the time he was 35, Woollcott's lush, melodramatic writings were earning him $2,000 a month (from the New York Herald), while his passionate, often indiscriminate hero worship poured out in a gush of famed personality sketches for The New Yorker, Cottier's, the Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess...
...Gods. For 1,300 years Shinto (The Way of the Gods) was challenged and eclipsed by Buddhism as the imperial dynasty was eclipsed by the shogunate. But in 1868 it became Japan's state religion, a cult of the dead based on ancestor worship, and resumed its interrupted task of molding the Japanese people for their divine mission of conquest...