Word: nai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these words of Congregationalist Professor Edward Chauncey Baldwin spurred into action the B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), biggest and best-known Jewish fraternal organization. Results are the Hillel Foundations, akin to the Westminster Foundations (for Presbyterians), Newman Clubs (for Catholics), and other denominational societies which flourish on U. S. campuses. Fastest growing of the lot, Hillel Foundations now serve 30,000 young Jews in 50-odd colleges as religious, cultural, recreational and social centres...
...habits of his friends made her smile, the rituals of boar hunting on his 10,000-acre estate both thrilled and repelled her; his family's profound and narrow piety troubled her; the ignorance, poverty and knavery of his peasants disgusted her. Because she was a straight-and nai've-American, her book clearly mirrors all that. But because she is intelligent and gentle, it also mirrors individuality, fertility and peace; the pride of a people long oppressed and newly independent; the care of one class for another; the possibilities, under a not despotic government, for life...