Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bonds of orthodox Hinduism are stronger in Madras than anywhere else in India. Abstention from liquor, tobacco and meat are cardinal points in the orthodox Hindu code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been one of the main planks of the Congress Party, and the party has pushed it wherever it could. About one-seventh of Travancore, half of the Central Provinces, portions of the United Provinces and the East Punjab are experimenting with liquor bans. Both Bombay and New Delhi have control systems...
...nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony and were married again in a 30-minute formal Greek Orthodox service-in which the bridal couple wore wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional in the Greek Orthodox service). There was one terrible moment when Francis was threatened with a perjury rap (he had picked up the wedding license in August and had listed himself as single...
...wanted to," she said. Her husband silenced her. But old Zvi's brown eyes flashed at the mention of his daughter. He sat up eagerly, his stocking feet dangling above the floor. "She was a very intelligent girl," he said. "I brought her up in the strictest Orthodox...
...Wester Kerk the light is religious but not dim. Through its many plain-glass windows floods a clear, Vermeer-like light. Last week, at the closing service of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, this revealing light showed every detail: ruff-collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian Orthodox Church-had been working, planning...
...many lands there are Communists who are practicing Christians," i.e., who believe in Marxist economic interpretation but repudiate Marxist atheism. When a Soviet correspondent asked the Archbishop of Canterbury for examples of such "Christian Communists," he was silenced by Canterbury's reply: "The members of the Russian Orthodox Church in your own country." The Archbishop added, "Not all anti-Communist forces are necessarily good forces...