Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week age, Professor Howard Mumford Jones, speaking before a conference of English teacher, accused college literature instruction of "sentimentality." By this he meant that there was too much "ah!" and "oh!" worship, and too little at tempt to place works in their historical contexts. He might also have objected to the lack of critical interpretation in courses, a lack which is equally conspicuous on the undergraduate level in the Harvard English Department...
...Minneapolis, TIME "stringer" Jay Edgerton buttonholed Frank Oppenheimer, University of Minnesota physicist, whose near-hero worship for his older brother blossomed after hours of conversation. It was a rewarding interview, out of which came a warm picture of the Oppenheimer family life and many a revealing anecdote about Robert...
...pointed up another disharmony-Moslems & Hindus v. Christians. In the dusty railway town of Jhansi, 225 miles south of Delhi, students of the Christian High School asked permission to sing the hymn during their daily prayers. School authorities refused, on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to worship non-Christian gods in a Christian institution. Representatives of the 800 students promptly protested that they merely wanted to do the will of Gandhi, who "died not only for India but for the whole of mankind...
...opposed to Communism and Fascism not only because they are un-American, but also because they represent barbarism and anachronism allen to our civilization. Our object is not to worship the goddess Free Enterprise, but, first to define and then investigate the system, and see how it can be improved for the benefit of all America and of the whole world. Sirius Proestopoulos, '51 Vice-President, Free Enterprise Society
Professor Wild thought science had brought about an extreme materialistic philosophy and the worship of the scientific method. He stressed the fact that the scientific method is not a valid instrument for ferreting out the harmful material tendencies of human life...