Religion: Words of the Week

"This is probably the most nervous generation of Americans who ever lived. The patron saint of the Irish is St. Patrick; of the English, St. George. The patron saint of Americans is St. Vitus . . . The American people are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon . . . That's a sad situation." —Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church.