Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of his obvious hero worship, Biographer Manchester makes an honest if superficial effort to explain Mencken's decline as a critic of manners, morals and letters. But he still leaves undone the harder job of explaining just what made Mencken tick. Like every other book on Mencken to date, Disturber of the Peace is at its best and most informative when it quotes from its subject's own machete-swinging prose...
...church is the first local church to use modern architecture. The exact location of the new house of worship is behind the Indoor Athletic Building, on Winthrop Street...
...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
...Owen Barrow, 40, a slight, blue-eyed Church of England clergyman, was willing to wager $33,000 on a hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into one devout congregation, celebrating together the payment...
...decides, is basically the "revolt of Platonism against the Aristotelian mise en scene of traditional Christianity . . . Your Platonist, satisfied that he had formed his notion of God without the aid of syllogisms or analogies, will divorce reason from religion . . . the God who reveals Himself interiorly claims a wholly interior worship as his right" instead of observing traditional Christianity's balance of doctrine and emphasis...