Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hellenism, by Arnold J. Toynbee. The historian finds lessons for the present in ancient Greece's humanism and worship of city-states, both of which he deplores...
...many ways Francis Spellman represented the U.S. to the Vatican, did much to help modernize its ancient methods, was admired as well as occasionally resented for his drive, efficiency and muscular opposition to Communism. Noted at home for tough stands on Catholic issues (e.g., his hassle with Eleanor Roosevelt over publicly paid transportation for parochial schools, his frequent criticism of movies he considered indecent), he traveled tirelessly, has spent many Christmases with U.S. troops in Japan, Korea and Europe in his capacity as military vicar to the armed forces...
Wearing scarlet caps and traditional flowing robes, some 400 imams one day last week left al-Azhar, Islam's oldest university, and fanned out through the streets of Cairo to spread a new-style gospel. The preachers had just completed a two-week course designed to align their ancient faith with the facts of modern life...
Into the World. Hoping to put al-Azhar on a par with modern universities, Chaltout stepped up a foreign-language program, made English a compulsory course, reorganized the library. Above all, Rector Chaltout accelerated al-Azhar's ancient work of propagating the faith. Under this program, the university...
...million a year in fees for top-name lecturers, traveloguers and other platform Poloniuses. After the cream of the chicken is ladled out, along come the hundreds of lesser performers who cannot get bookings through the major agencies. For them, job opportunities are offered on Thursday mornings in an ancient littb hall at Chicago's Art Institute. There the presidents and program chairmen of some 500 Midwestern women's clubs, as critical as any group of Broadway angels, gather to audition acts...