Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds' course for counterrevolutionaries: he "confessed" to his sins. He was released on Nov. 17 at the Hong Kong border. Some of his captors thought they had made a convert. Missionary Stockwell, weakened by his captivity but still unconverted, plans to continue his work elsewhere in the Orient, after a year's sabbatical...
...Captain Blood. 74. Journey to the Far Pacific shows this governor to be well-briefed on the Orient: 1. Earl Warren...
...jars them a bit by having them read vicious attacks on capitalistic society by Marx and Archbishop Sheen. Then, the course takes up four ways man has tried to orient himself to the world: the Catholic way (Brautigum calls this "sacramental orientation"), the Protestant view ("Recognizing individual shortcomings"), the Marxist, and the naturalist-materialist orientation, typical of Westchester County and the American middle class. In his attempt to raise questions in student minds, Brautigum has made his course the cornerstone of the freshman year at Colgate...
Commenting favorably on the U.S. Information Service, which sponsors American libraries in most of the large cities of the Orient. Fisher said that he had had no trouble in keeping up with U.S. developments while abroad. On his first day in the States after a trip of six months. Fisher boasted a Stevenson button on his lapel. He also looked well for a man who "ate nothing but rice for three months...
Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...