Word: hereticism
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Though it is as a dramatist that Hauptmann is best known, he has written a number of novels and short stories of which "The Fool in Christ" 1910, and "The Heretic of Soana" have obtained the widest circulation. He has also written verse-dramas and epics. Much discussion has been...
Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor which today lies ruined in a low, unhealthy marsh, was the traditional home of the Virgin Mary after she left Jerusalem. To Ephesus, in 431, went papal legates, Eastern patriarchs, bishops, to meet in judgment of a grievous heresy. Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople...
Now comes bitter iconoclasm in the form of "Maguire, Builder of Men," a satirical study by John R. Tunis in the December Harper's. Mr. Tunis has long been a heretic among the orthodoxy of sports writers, but it is doubtful if his pen has ever been sharper. In his...
The book represents a vitriolic commentary on the art of modern building, and constitutes the brilliant manifesto of an avowed heretic. The keynote of the work is to be found in the dictum, "All great architecture is true to its Architects' immediate present."
Last week the American Hebrew received many a Jew's congratulations for accomplishing this deletion. Its Associate Editor Walter Hart Blumenthal last February flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich, extortioner, heretic, deceiver, impostor, harpy, schemer, lickpenny, pinchfist...