Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serge Elisseeff, Professor of Far Eastern Languages, and Michael Karpovich, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will retire at the end of this academic year...
Patrick H. B. Wall, a Conservative member of Parliament, will speak this morning at 11:00 in Room One, Shannon Hall, on the Middle Eastern situation, under the auspices of the Army ROTC Battalion. Wall is a member of the British Foreign Policy Committee...
...teammates hardly needed his help as they splashed to the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming championship, but Yale Sophomore Tim Jecko stroked along at top speed just the same, took the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley titles, became the first triple winner since Yale's late Aussie John Marshall turned the trick...
...rundown, three-story building at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn is the hub and powerhouse of one of the most intense religious brotherhoods in the modern world: the Lubavitcher movement. In Communist Russia and North Africa, Australia and all over the U.S.. an estimated 10,000 followers of this Hasidic sect look to Brooklyn for light and guidance, for it is the home of their Rebbe,* Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He is the seventh leader of the Lubavitchers, a man whose wisdom is believed by his followers to be something more than human...
...outsiders have made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...