Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raise the Umbrella. Around 1830, the rise of Jacksonian democracy created a new pride in the rural American scene, and artists began flocking outdoors to record it. A group of writers backed up and inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school...
...Cult: 'I believe (credo) that you can worship God better on the golf course than you can in church ..." Members of the cult demonstrate their devotion to the creed by making their Stations of the Course (18 in number) each Sunday morning...
Then the President turned to another power: "The free world believes under one of its religions or another in a divine power . . . Suppose on the next Sabbath day observed by each of our religions, Americans˜165 million people of us-went to our accustomed places of worship and asked for help, and by so doing demonstrated to all the world the sincerity and depth of our aspirations for peace. This would be a mighty force...
...Roof, will be fixed up by Studio Boss Dore Schary. Schary's fix: the relationship of the younger brother to a homosexual football captain will be changed to simple hero worship...
Last week the academy architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, announced that modernistic plans for the chapel have been abandoned because the original building might have "distracted" public thinking about the architecture of the entire academy. Now being planned: a model "conforming to more conventional American concepts of a place of worship." It is, said the architects wryly, complete with steeple and stained-glass windows...