Word: worshipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who are now shouting "I like Ike" forget that we Americans have been paying dearly in blood and tears for our sentimental hero worship. We worshiped F. D. Roosevelt, only to hear the charge that his policies at Yalta and elsewhere were responsible for strengthening Communism. We worshiped General Marshall, only to see him condemned for losing China to democracy. If, seemingly, our recent heroes have proved giants with feet of clay, what warrant is there for holding that Eisenhower-the glamour boy of the hour-will not bring us more, and bitterer, disappointments...
...presses his palms together and prays: "Most saintly of Virgins, I don't ask to be good today. This is not like the other days. I only ask that they come out easy, that they don't snag me, that I may live and be able to worship you. Just let me live. Amen...
Thalberg Syndrome. Novelist Stephen Longstreet scratches the surface of Hollywood by merely scratching its back. Infected with a bad case of producer worship, or Thalberg Syndrome, The Beach House implies that its hero is a mute, inglorious Milton gagged by a lack of cash and artistic credit. But as Novelist Longstreet portrays him, he seems more like a shark whose teeth have gone...
...zeal of Jones Father & Son spreads to most of their students. All classes begin with prayers. Students argue about Bible texts as other collegians talk about sport, politics and sex. At Sunday worship and the weekday chapel services, students steep themselves in "the oldtime religion"-the intimate spiritual question, the gospel hymn, the inspirational prayer...
...hard-won faith, that he has found in it, after much agony, a healing peace and humility. As a quest for personal salvation, it will command the respect of those who cannot share his cosmic hope and whose natural piety takes other forms . . . The view that man must worship either God or Stalin faces many formidable theoretical difficulties and has the most mischievous practical consequences . . . Deeply religious men speak with the same divided counsels as nonreligious men about the specific problems of war, peace, poverty and foreign policy, which must find empirical solutions if Communism's false answers...