Word: orientator
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...college alumni back for reunion, 31 Catholic missionary priests and bishops arrived last week at a huge grey stone building overlooking the Hudson River near Ossining, N.Y. They represented some 400 Maryknoll Fathers scattered across the world, and they had traveled hard and far - from ten countries in the Orient and Latin America - to be at their society's decennial general chapter...
...last big chunk of the world's unchartered airways-the trans-Pacific routes to the Orient-was finally portioned out last week by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Promptly approved by President Truman, the board's decision will permit air travelers for the first time to go around the world on one ticket...
...snow of the north Pacific route and the lure of Hawaii as a way-point in the mid-Pacific route may well give Pan Am the advantage. What it mentioned scarcely at all is that the Northwest Passage will cut the flying distance from New York to the Orient by 1,000 miles. Northwest also will do most of its flying overland, where reassuring emergency bases can be built...
...Every culture in the past, says Northrop, has had a philosophical basis (a theory of the nature of man and what is good for him). Setting out to prove it in 435 pages of closely reasoned analyses of the histories of Mexico, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Russia and the Orient, Professor Northrop concentrates on science, religion and art, but ranges all over the cultural map. One of his basic theses is that the present forms of all Western cultures belong to the past because the assumptions behind them no longer square with scientific and hence philosophical truth. Indeed, they never...
...know this, Professor Northrop says, is the wisdom of the Orient; and in the great religions of the East, most purely in Buddhism, it has been cultivated through thousands of years as the ultimate reality. In the West, even artists were rarely content to render the sensuous world-the esthetic component-for its own sake until 19th Century Impressionism. Yet if all devotees of the theoretic component-Anglo-Americans in particular-can learn the religious value of direct experience, fanaticism and confusion would cease...