Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah at the Crossroads, he tries to close his accounts with Zionism with the advice that Jews should either go to Israel or renounce their religion and stop praying, "Next year in Jerusalem."* "The mission of the Wandering Jew is completed . . . There must be an end to every calvary." For his "apostasy,'' Koestler-born a Jew in Hungary-was called an anti-Semite in Britain's Jewish Chronicle, where his argument also appeared...
...first meeting since the Air Force's sudden announcement, the cadet group said it "realized that its mission has been somewhat altered." It will, however, "do everything in its power to aid Col. Waldo B. Jones and his staff in maintaining the morale, academic standards, and efficiency of the corps...
...South's greatest peacetime air armadas. "Under my power as Commander in Chief of the Alabama Air National Guard, I am ordering every jet, every C-47 and everything that can roll on wheels, much less, fly, to fly over Jacksonville Dec. 31 in a special weather mission," thundered he. "I hear that the Florida runways are in bad shape and need to be inspected, so these here Alabama planes will give...
This famously funny novel, out of print for the last dozen years, is the work of one Roger Poidatz. who as a young French cartographer in 1922 ended a two-year mission with the Japanese government and crammed his impressions of the country and the culture into his one and only book. Poidatz took his pen name Thomas Raucat from the Japanese tomar? ka, meaning "Will you stay the night here?", which when asked by a hotelkeeper takes on a double meaning. Though it has hints of a French boudoir farce scored for samisen, the novel's double meanings...
...years led Mexico in its great painting renaissance, Diego Rivera, 68, is now in Moscow to check up on suspected cancer, and unctuously expressing his hope of painting like the trite Soviet real ists. Firebrand David Siqueiros, 56, just back himself from a Moscow pilgrimage with a com mission to do the "world's largest mural" (4,500 sq. ft.) for the new Warsaw sports stadium, de lights in ridiculing contemporary Mexican art ists, including fellow Party Member Rivera. With the passage of time it seems that the least political and most impassioned of the three, Jose Clemente Orozco...