Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Old Days. Conservatism, which has been defined as the worship of dead revolutionists, was present in the factors that led the Democrats to pick Stevenson. He was selected in spite of rather than because of the fact that he is a new face with a new line of talk. What the real leaders of the Democratic Party wanted was a man who could repair the North-South damage and the mink-coat damage of the Truman regime and thereby put the party back where it was when Franklin Roosevelt died...
...Democrats worshiped a dead revolution, a good many Republicans, at their convention two weeks before, seemed to worship a dead counterrevolution. Too much Republican oratory hankered for a "return to" something-return to the good old days of fiscal stability, low taxes, cheap steak...
Pettigrew v. Passion. Linklater's setting is a Scottish fishing village, his characters a cross section of classes from laird to laborers. Too somnolent to worship Dionysus, too remote to be reformed by Pentheus, the villagers of Laxdale have only one wish in life-to see Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian...
...cars ostentatiously through the streets of Andalusia, Ga. It is all because of the new rector, Mark Barbee, who is giving the Episcopal service a lilt such as Andalusia has never heard before. When the four girls kneel in his church, Rector Barbee suspects they have come "not to worship God, but to worship him." He finds it unsettling...
...denial of corporate discipline and authority." Since the Catholics have a visible church with well-defined authority, U.S. Protestants, says Social Action, have again reacted by going to the other extreme: "Is the church to be conceived simply as an aggregate of individuals who meet for casual fellowship and worship once a week under a professional leader?...Individual persons are saved, but in their real human relations to others and not in isolation...