Word: heathenism
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...fire-and-brimstone freak posing as mother in the case of one Carrie White. This specimen of faith-gone-fanatic seems straight out of Jonathan Edwards's congregation, dividing her time between spreading the Good Word among the suburban heathen and tormenting her daughter at the slightest hint of sin rearing its ugly head within Carrie. Mrs. White (played by Piper Laurie) has plainly left her mark on Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek); naive almost beyond belief, Carrie is utterly traumatized by the experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less...
...start Friday night and extend through the game, which starts at 1:30. The most important things to remember during the game are the cheers. Not those standard, rowdy cheers, but those special cheers, neatly tailored for the hordes from Brown. They are devastatingly witty and will humble the heathen Bruins...
...fast, pre-med heathen! I want a piece of the action...
...them to Catholicism. This is not always successful. Only last November a band of Indians attacked the mission at San Diego and killed three settlers. At the Bay of San Francisco, however, Missionary Father Francisco Paldu reports that the colonists so far have been "well received by all the heathen whom we met. They brought their gifts of mussels and wild seeds, which were reciprocated with beads... And they were astonished at the cattle, which they had never seen before." Apparently it is chiefly the Spaniards' missionary fervor that drives them into these wilds, for there is no gold...
When Boston Clergyman Cotton Mather learned of the new technique, he tried to persuade local doctors to inoculate as many citizens as possible during the epidemic of 1721. But the city's leading physician called inoculation an "infatuation" and denounced as heathen any treatment adapted from "the Musselmen and faithful people of the prophet Mahomet." Only Mather's friend Dr. Zabdiel Boylston agreed to try the new tactic. Complained Mather: "Not only the physician who began the experiment but I also am the object of the [people's] fury." One opponent of inoculation threw a bomb through...