Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interrupted Rubber. The first movement Patel ever organized was a student revolt against a teacher he accused of profiteering in pencils and paper. Later, Patel went to London, studied law 16 hours a day, topped the list in a bar examination and headed back for his beloved India without stopping to tour the Continent. He has never left India since...
...triumphs in South Africa. At that time Patel dressed in fancy Western clothes and affected the manners of the most pukka sahib Briton. When his eyes fell upon Gandhi, Patel interrupted his game long enough to make a few scathing remarks. A year later he joined Gandhi's movement...
...Howard proudly insisted that this movement stands 'above party, class, race, or viewpoint'. . . . He sounded the usual warning against Communism. The M.R.A. classless society is the answer to the class struggle, he said; Communists see this, and that is why they malign the movement. ... I asked whether Buchman hadn't endorsed Hitler. Howard admitted that he once, naively, had endorsed the German Führer. But he emphasized M.R.A.'s record during the resistance and told me of a secret Gestapo document, 126 pages long, which condemns M.R.A. as being 'a Christian garment to world...
Teamwork & Absolute Love. "This service pointed up some of the weaknesses in the postwar version of the Oxford movement.* The first public confession can be stirring, but the tenth is likely to strike one as the same old thing. And the fatal suspicion arises that confessions are made not through humility but to persuade. They sound a little too much coached, perfected to the point where they seem artificial. ... At the same time, I found more good at Caux than critics had led me to expect. M.R.A. has cut away the theological language which repels the layman. If it falls...
...slip of the pen made invitingly easy by the Buchmanites, who also call themselves the Oxford Group. The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th Century in the Church of England, is associated with John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey, whose Tracts for the Times urged return to Catholic teachings and practices...