Word: devoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...
...devout Moslem who neither drinks nor smokes, Youssef Ben Khedda is not regarded as a Communist fin 1956 he actually liquidated a splinter group of Red terrorists in the F.L.N.). though he approves such Communist techniques as the nationalization of industry and political instruction of the Algerian masses. The most potent members of his new Cabinet are such like-minded ex-terrorists as his old comrade in arms. Belkacem Krim, who stays on as Vice Premier and Interior Minister, and tough, able Saad Dahlab. 38, who takes over Krim's old job as Foreign Minister...
...notoriety, Lady Chatterley's Lover is, essentially, just an extravagant sentimentalization of sex and nature through which D. H. Lawrence passionately protested against industrial civilization and Victorian prudery. But despite what Katherine Anne Porter has called its "imbecilic harmlessness," the book still draws devout support, as was shown during last year's obscenity trial in Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private...
Buddha's general adviser is Hideo Kimura, professor of Primitive Indian culture at the Buddhist Ryukoku University. Objectively summing up his work, the professor said last week: "I think it is a good picture, and it will not offend devout Buddhists. As for the mass of Japanese people, they are not devout enough to be offended." They just like movies...
...Arabs rallied behind the Nationalist Party, nominally led by Ali Muhsin Barwani, 42, a quiet, devout dreamer. But its real leader is militant Abdulrahman Mohammed, nicknamed Babu, a highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...