Word: believerism
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The Death of Ahasuerus, by Par Lagerkvist. The Wandering Jew as a symbol of salvation by unfaith-by a Nobel Prize-winning novelist who once described himself as "a believer without a belief."
This is the apocryphal legend of Ahasuerus. the Wandering Jew condemned by Christ to homeless immortality. If Ahasuerus had not been invented by some unknown storyteller of the Middle Ages, it seems likely that Swedish Author Par Lagerkvist would have reinvented him to embody the mystical dialectic of his own...
Not all traveled the same distance. Hemingway wrote pieces for New Masses (he was praised because his style resembled Lenin's!), starred at writers' congresses, where he helped the party put the kibosh on Trotskyites, and called himself a "loyal man of the left." But he traveled no...
Died. Richard Henry Tawney, 81, influential British economic historian whose books (Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, The Acquisitive Society, Equality) helped shape the thinking of two generations of Labor Party theorists; in London. A descendant of British freeholders who fought for Cromwell and Parliament, he was a passionate believer...
In the Post Office. Before he became ambassador, the Indian government retained him as an adviser. In his reports, describing the inertia and inefficiency of India's state-owned industries, Economist Galbraith coined the catch phrase "post-office socialism," proceeded to place the blame for its mediocre showing on...