Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...taking the title of the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Cole appeared at one of the better known English public schools, and confirmed several of the schoolboys in the chapel. Why his archaic vestments did not give him away at the time, I cannot imagine, but perhaps as Bishop of faraway Madras, the age and condition of his robes did not matter...
...basic substance of Homecoming, like the base of a perfume, has a terrible smell; but to many moviegoers, the end product will seem quite pleasant. It is superskillfully custom-blended to please the vast public of Gable & Turner. World War II, reduced for long stretches to a faint, faraway hum, appears to have been just an old sweet song...
...spilled over the grandeur of the Missa. Bulbous-headed little men have gone around spreading the misconception that the Missa isn't really a mass at all, much less a dirty old Catholic mass. Catholic masses are supposed to be sung in monotones by corrupt priests in faraway places. But this is a philosophy; it has a profound message for the initiate and plenty of sex for young and old. As a result of all this drivel, the Missa has been turned in finale furioso of the concert stage and it has been divorced, to as great a degree...
...That everything in the Bible happened at more or less the same time and place. "The students seemed unable to grasp the fact that some events in the Bible took place years before others, that some ideas were very ancient, that the events occurred in the faraway Near East, and that the writing is flavored by this locale...