Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet defense ministry newspaper Red Star declared that "Mao's heirs continue talking about the inevitability of another world war in order to justify extremely dangerous practical actions, namely, Peking's persistent efforts to stop the process of detente." Red Star expressed horror at "China's worship, close to religious ecstasy...
...unwarranted zeal. This new way of thinking, which had imposed on us its guidance, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man nor did it see any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend to worship man and his material needs. Everything beyond physical well-being and accumulation of material goods, all other human requirements and characteristics of a subtler and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life did not have any superior sense. That provided...
...freshman team, McDermott started for the varsity much of his sophomore year when Peter Curtin was, sidelined with an injury. He caught eight passes and scored a touchdown that year, but there was no room for a hard worker and enthusiastic team man in the world of football hero-worship at the time. Not with Pat McInally in his senior year...
...much that it was the same paper, it is that the paper was successful, and that is what really counts here after all. For Harvard's one, mainline, true-to-life tradition is success. That is what a great number of your predecessors at this august institution worship as their common bond. The traditions of elitism, and the closeness Harvard has with the power structures of business and government cannot be truly conveyed by the ivy and the red brick, they are an intangible part of the aura here...
...campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government," instead of the more value-laden "regime," hasn't he silently confirmed the status quo and denied...