Word: asia
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Even your "Dancing for the Gods" article says, "Among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture . . . may be loaded with metaphysical meaning." The inner meaning in the new vitality Protestantism is recovering in the suburbs is yet to be appreciated by you. We hopefully await the day when a reporter from TIME will do as much for the natives in suburban American churches as he does for the Asian natives. RUSSELL J. BECKER ROBERT A. EDGAR THEOPHILUS RINGSMUTH CLINTON M. RITCHIE...
Other diseases may have taken a greater toll of human life, but none has spread more terror than the Black Death. In the 14th century, plague reached from Asia through Asia Minor to Europe, where it killed 25 million people (one in four by conservative estimate, perhaps one in three). Three centuries later the rat-borne scourge devastated London, killing 70,000 -one-sixth of the population. Then it lay relatively dormant, taking a regular annual toll in parts of Asia where it was endemic. In 1896 it burst out of South China, through the port of Hong Kong. From...
...firing of General Douglas MacArthur, who considered himself "the proconsul in Asia": "It's too bad that the general didn't have a good political adviser. If he'd have consulted me about what he ought to do, I would have made it much easier for him, and he'd be a much more popular man than he is today...
DANCING may seem a sin to some Christians, but in Asia it is still what it always was - a way of worship. In six pages of color, TIME looks at the religious dancers of the East, their ups (in Ceylon) and their downs (in India). See RELIGION. Dancing for the Gods...
Religious dancing has all but died out in the Christian West-probably the last to use it regularly are the all-but-extinct Shakers. But, as shown on these pages, among the peoples of Asia dancing is still an organic and important part of religion; each step and gesture, even a finger's tilt, may be loaded with metaphysical meaning. Costumes are designed according to ancient and elaborate convention: in a classic Indian dance drama called Kathakali, the makeup alone often takes from early morning until late in the afternoon. The music accompanying dancers in the East ranges from...