Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more telling was a sharp letter to the Times of India from Nehru's brother-in-law, wealthy businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who held the Prime Minister more responsible than the Congress Party for the nation's "corruption, nepotism, jobbery and unseemly haste to amass wealth by crooked gains and avoidance of taxation. All these sores of the body politic grow larger and larger every day." He went on: "Our present degradation is leading the country to the same morass in which Chiang Kai-shek's China found itself. There was no rescue in China from...
...lived, gave the dealers representing every U.S. make his considered opinion of the current state of the U.S. auto business. Said Bill Power: "Gentlemen, for 30 long years I've spent my life trying to kick hell out of Ford and Plymouth-and here we are all together. Brother, we're in trouble...
...Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, brother of the eighth duke, restored the family dignity, whetted the sword that his greater son would wield. "He was a little man, full of vibrant nervous energy." Lord Randolph feared nobody-least of all Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone...
...title story, the Old Man of the Sea is played by an extraordinarily antic marriage broker who enmeshes a young rabbinical student as thoroughly as Susskind did Fidelman. The Mourners tells of a gross landlord who, in trying to dispossess an unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The Loan joins a man who desperately needs help with one who desperately wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive...
SHALL YOUNG MEN COMING TO HARVARD BE ENCOURAGED TO HERD THEMSELVES ACCORDING TO CHILDHOOD COMMITMENTS AND HAVE THEIR SECTARIAN PREFERENCES (AND PREJUDICES) DEEPENED BY ASSOCIATION WITH "THEIR OWN KIND" OR BE ENCOURAGED TO EXPLORE FREELY WHAT THE BROADER BROTHER-HOOD MOVEMENT HAS TO OFFER? So far as their religious life (in college and later) is concerned, it makes little difference whether their sectarian points of view are reenforced in Memorial Church or elsewhere...