Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paintings-Botticelli's Birth of Venus-was reported missing. The Germans had carried it off. said a cable last week, "in payment for winter coal." Florence had apparently lost a supreme product of the period which, wrote Walter Pater, represented "the care for physical beauty, the worship of the body, the breaking down of those limits which the religious system of the middle age imposed on the heart and the imagination...
...World War I, may go walking by themselves, "cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead." For those who observe the surrenders of Germany and Japan by going to church, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last week published "A Service of Worship for Use by the Churches...
...think that Dewey [TIME, July 10] is undoubtedly an able and capable man. He, however, does not have the emotional appeal, the ability to inspire hero worship that Willkie had. One other factor may keep many people from being enthusiastic over Dewey, and that is the suspicion that he is not fully behind the movement to establish a family of nations...
Another aspect of the new Communism, long evident, is the worship of old national heroes. From the Soviet film capital at Alma Ata, beyond the Urals, came word that Hollywood-wise, English-speaking Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein has shot two-thirds of a new picture about Tsar Ivan (1530-1584). In Tsarist days, Russian school children learned that Ivan was called the Terrible because as a boy he enjoyed squashing little kittens to death, as a ruler he delighted in hacking off the heads of subjects...
Albert Einstein's position as one of the great popular idols of the 20th Century is a historic phenomenon of hero worship. Few of his millions of admirers understand his relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all time, and conservative heads of state delight to honor...