Word: worshipping
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College education should give you a sense of this intellectual past by getting you far away from the present and the mindless celebrity worship and inane pop culture that dominates it. Colleges should create an environment and shape a curriculum that maximizes exposure to the great works and the great thinkers of the Western tradition. Colleges fail in this purpose when they distract their students with courses focused on trivial subjects that have nothing to do with important works of the past. This is not to say that there’s no merit in studying current cultural practices...
Kline said she was pleased overall. The event was entirely student coordinated, led by Divinity School student Maria Christina Vlassidas, and the CSWR has been trying to “encourage students at the Divinity school to use our space both for their own worship and for others to learn about our different religious customs and beliefs,” she said...
Ladder 49 headlines Joaquin Phoenix as firefighter Jack Morrison and John Travolta as Mike Kennedy, captain of Ladder 49 in the Baltimore Fire Department. Despite the hero worship of firefighters post-Sept. 11, the film is in fact touching and sometimes gently funny, tracing one man’s trials and tribulations—as well as honors and accolades. Phoenix is fantastic, but Travolta has an airy nonchalance totally incongruous with the seriousness of some situations. Director Jay Russell creates an familial world of jovial camaraderie sweet and good-natured enough to overlook its implausibility...
...Muslim merchant families, the Hui, who first came to China in the 7th century, are largely indistinguishable physically from the Han, except for the occasional skullcap or veil. Unlike the Uighurs of Xinjiang, whose separatist cause has spooked Beijing, the Hui are not prevented from overt Muslim worship; many of Henan's Hui villages have two flourishing mosques...
...here it reminds me of your mom!” and “By the way fellas, in that last joke the ‘hot’ was spelled with two t’s.” He normally rolls with a sidekick or two who worship the ground he plods on. As always, tonight is the night for Hound Dog to get, in his words, “bootylicious” at The Sweaty...