Word: offshoot
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...doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves bitterness and schism that matches anything in the church's story...
...Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers in that year. Serious dental study is plainly, then, a recent development, but the field's trend, as shown by Eliot's words and climaxed by Conant's action, is no sudden offshoot. It grew with dentistry...
...Calvinist conscience stands in adamant resistance to Freud. In France le Freudisme was little more than an intellectual fad between world wars, but took a spurt when it was reimported in 1945, along with jive and chewing gum from the U.S. The spurt has died; so, almost, has an offshoot psychanalyse existentielle, developed by Jean-Paul Sartre...
...latest in this series of rebellious offshoot, "i.e., the Cambridge Review," was started last year by Leo Raditsa, who had become irritated by the apathy toward new ideas which prevailed in the Advocate. Raditsa feels that none of its members will assume any intellectual "responsibility," that is, the board will commit itself to no opinion nor does it attempt to find what is really new in intellectual and literary currents. Thus, by sticking exclusively to its present aim--to develop undergraduate craftsmen--the Advocate has shirked its responsibility as a publication...
Under lackluster Dr. Hubert Ney, 62, the pro-German Christian Democrats (an offshoot of Konrad Adenauer's West German C.D.U.) rolled up 25.4% of the vote. The Social Democrats took a beating (14.3% of the vote), trailing far behind the supernationalist right-wing Democrats (24.2%), under ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider. The big surprise was that tubby little "Jojo" Hoffmann, the Francophile ex-Premier, cornered a solid 21.8% (and 13 seats in Parliament) for his Christian People's Party. Hoffmann's supporters, who favor continued economic collaboration between the Saar and France, cannily reminded middle-class Saarlanders that...