Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago or anywhere else. Said he: "I wouldn't accept a permanent job if they offered it on a golden plate lined with platinum, uranium and cobalt. I want to let them sleep quietly, all those conductors in America with the Fafnir and Fasolt mentality, those dragons that worship gold...
Both Russia and Japan started programs of technical advancement by rejecting Christianity; and in the process they had to set up new absolutes. In Russia the idea of the Kingdom of God was transformed into the vision of the classless society; Japan instituted emperor-worship and the messianic mission of the Japanese people. Bishop Newbigin believes that technical culture is not religiously neutral. If it does not keep its roots in the Christian faith, it will have to find a new absolute, and will become demonic...
Plug Nichirens. In Tokyo, during a showing of Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion, the management of a movie theater had to beg Nichiren Buddhists in the audience to stop throwing coins-an act of worship-at the fragile Cinema-Scope screen...
...comparatively, the poorer nations are getting poorer, and the gap between have and have-not is widening. "Whether you talk of a Communist state like the Soviet Union, which has become an industrialized state, or of many non-Communist states that are highly industrialized, in the final analysis they worship the same go(js-the god of industrialization, the god of the machine," and it was up to those present to help solve the economic problems of Asia, because "if we don't, somebody else will...
...Warmerdam's coaching will be a shot in the arm for the guys on the team," commented track captain Al Gordon. "They worship him for his ability...