Word: protestantized
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Laborious Stages. First conceived in Great Britain in the 1930s, the project was interrupted by World War II, then revived in 1946, when the Church of Scotland passed a formal resolution calling for a new translation in "the language of the present day." By January 1948, Great Britain's...
But the true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik...
In the area of sexuality, however, we have found that it is a much more vital factor than you imply. In fact, for 80% of our Catholic clergy clients, sexual involvement is, as we have labeled it in our study, the precipitating cause of their departure. Not so for the...
Sir: My departure from the Protestant parish ministry made many wonder if I had "given up on God." Quite the contrary. I simply wanted to go where the action is, not remain where it used to be.
Indeed, the whole enchanted continent, originally colonized by white men in pursuit of El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth, is encapsulated in Macondo. The only trace of the Protestant ethic in the town is the operation of the U.S banana company-and the "gringos" are plainly mean, greedy, and...