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...major source of Witness persecution is the powerful Orthodox Church to which 90% of all Greeks formally belong. Although Greece's constitution proclaims religious freedom, Orthodoxy is granted special privileges as the state church, and all proselytizing by other faiths is forbidden. Orthodox leaders regard the Witnesses as the most persistent violators of the rule. While Kazanis was facing retrial, the Athens daily Ta Nea summed up church opinion in a story that wildly denounced the Witnesses as "an American Mafia with agents throughout the world, who make propaganda in favor of Judaism." Greece's Orthodox primate, Metropolitan...
...kept his father's sect alive, founded a cotton empire, and had six sons of his own. Today, El Mahdi's descendants again rule the Sudan. His grandson, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, is the stiff, unyielding religious leader of the sect to which most Sudanese Moslems belong. A great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, is a young British-educated economist who led the Mahdists' Umma Party to victory in last year's election...
...very phrase used to have a pejorative connotation, a suggestion of decline. But a surprising number of people were willing to admit that they belong in the category, and to talk frankly about their lives and those of their friends. We defined middle age as ranging from 40 to 60. Although she barely qualifies, Actress Lauren Bacall, 41, struck the editors as a fitting (and certainly comely) personification of the Command Generation. Widowed, remarried, mother of three, heroine of several comebacks, she has a tested quality of spirit; she is game...
...20th century, though perhaps not its greatest playwright-Bertolt Brecht. Despite his seemingly stubborn Marxism, Brecht is intimately concerned with the existence problem. His plays are drenched in fatality, and to call fate "economic necessity" is to change the name without changing the game. While they do not all belong to the theater of the absurd, these playwrights possess that initial recognition of absurdity that, Camus argues, comes to one in the midst of deadening routines. In the opening scene of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, Jimmy Porter hurls a newspaper to the floor and says...
...many a telephone user, it comes as a surprise to learn that not all U.S. telephones belong to Mother Bell; others are startled to discover that even small independent companies like Gentsch's have modern equipment and first-rate service. The Bell System and its 23 subsidiary operating companies own 84% of the nation's 94 million telephones, but the percentage is dropping. The remaining phones belong to 2,423 independent companies, largely centered in the Midwest, Far West and South-along with all of Hawaii and Alaska. The independents last year had combined revenues of $1.7 billion...