Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your report (TIME, July 31) of an article I wrote recently for Christianity and Crisis you have me saying that the word lamb in Japanese is an "epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." What I actually said is that one of the Japanese words for sheep is such an epithet...
...Lamb of God, an ancient symbol dear to most Christians, is an offensive notion to the Japanese. To them the lamb is "a dirty, stupid and cringing animal." The word lamb is "an epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." Thus, in Christianity and Crisis last week, wrote George S. Noss, Japan-born son of U.S. missionaries, himself a missionary in rural Japan for eleven years, now a teacher of Japanese at Columbia University. His thesis: the reason Christian missionaries to Japan have converted only one-half of 1% of the population is largely that...
...lamb, ex-Missionary Noss would substitute the mirror popular in Shinto temples. Says he: "For the Japanese, Jesus the Mirror of God would be a tremendous symbol." He would also adopt the cherry blossom as a Christian symbol...
...later years, correspondents were often surprised to find that Woollcott had never outgrown his love for renaming both his friends and himself. "Lamb of God," he would begin a letter to Noel Coward. Poet Archibald Macleish he addressed as "Ambrose-Son-of-Heaven." Sometimes he signed himself "Pumblechook...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...