Word: dom
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...sanyasis are neither Hindus nor Buddhists; they are Roman Catholic monks-priests and novices-of the Benedictine monastery at Siluvaigiri (Holy Cross Mount). Their superior, Dom Philip Kaipanplakal, 43, has dedicated the community to proving a fact which Western Christians often forget: the Christian message need not always be couched in the style of Christian Europe or America...
...Weakness. As a priest and a member of a family which has been Christian for centuries. Philip Kaipanplakal is forcibly aware of the snail's-pace progress of Indian Christianity (Protestants and Catholics together form about 2½% of India's population). The main reason, as Dom Philip sees it: "Missionaries offer Indians not pure Christianity, but Christianity plus European culture...
...Dom Philip himself began as a Carmelite, and his first six years in the order were spent in Belgium and Italy. There he had a chance to sort out the culture from the Christianity. On his return to India in 1936, he began a thorough study of Hindu culture and philosophy, found most of it not incompatible with Christian belief. A basic weakness of his own church's missionary work, he concluded, was that it sought to explain religion in terms derived from Plato and Aristotle. To Indians, with no tradition of Western philosophy behind them, this kind...
Veteran Gerry Murphy is tentatively set for the fifth slot of the forthcoming spring tour, inasmuch as Gene Mann, a promising sophomore, number one on last year's freshmen, can't make the trip. Senior Bill Goodman is slated for six, and sophomores Terry King, Dom Spencer and Herb Stone for seven, eight, and ten. Steve Sonnabend, a junior transfer from Cornell, who was ineligible last year, looks like the number nine man. Senior Dick Beche, sophomores Frank Goodman. Mike Ward, and Junior Paul Trinichieri complete the trip list...
...their valuable athletes around by plane from game to game. Meanwhile, as Western fans see it, the Pacific Coast cities are permanently condemned to second-grade baseball, played mainly by greenhorns and has-beens, while the big league teams in the East drain off such stars as Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Larry Jansen, Gene Woodling and Ferris Fain as fast as they come up. The draft has a double effect: a club lucky enough to develop two or three standout players in a season must usually sell them all to the highest bidders rather than risk losing one of them...