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Word: absolom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded hour with popular classes. The two hundred and twenty-five elect who made it into Comp Lit 166 will file into Longfellow Alumnae with a sizeable vanguard of embittered auditors to hear Professor Guerard launch his whirlwind tour of modern novels from Bovary to Absolom. Fieser, Krall, et al, will start their annual purge of Harvard's pre-med ranks in Mallinc-krodt MB9. Expressly designed to separate the men from the boys, Chem 20 will again swell the number of English concentrators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Trouble With Monday | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Christian support of conservative or reactionary elements, he added in an interview, is not the way to cope with Communist competition: "The Christian opposition to Communism should express itself as a Christian concern for the social revolution.:" Anthropologist Absolom Vikakazi of Natal, South Africa, currently teaching at the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford, Conn., pointed to the growing movement in South Africa toward what are called separatist churches. These (there were about 800 at the last count in 1948) have broken away from the white-dominated mission churches, to set up their own, sometimes reverting to the practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Brown Man's Burden | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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