Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toynbee warns, it would be absurd for us to imagine that this transoceanic shift of the Western-Christian heritage is likely to ensure "Western ascendancy" for very long. Political unification of the world "in the near future" is, he thinks, a "foregone conclusion," and once it is achieved, orthodox Christianity will be as old-fashioned as "parish-pump politics." Our descendants, as well as the descendants of our Oriental contemporaries, will be heirs to a religion and a civilization distilled from the teachings of many spiritual messiahs, including Confucius, Socrates, Christ, Buddha, Zarathustra and Mohamed...
...perhaps because of this that the HYRC is less sensationalist and more orthodox in its work than most of its rivals. "We don't believe in rallies and telegrams," Rusher explains, "we want concrete and useful political action...
...Very Worried." But the real battle was still the battle for the roads. For the Jews in Jerusalem, it was a matter of survival. Each day food grew scarcer, bread lines longer. Those most immediately threatened by the Arab stranglehold were 1,500 Orthodox Jews living in the Old City, surrounded by blockading Arabs. What food they got was coming through in British convoys...
Cursed Man. ECA's administrator would not have a star to steer by. He would not be able to navigate by orthodox economic rules. ECA's money would finance roughly one-half of all Western Europe's imports next year. European governments, many of them socialistic, would expect him to continue artificially propping up their present living standards as a wall against Communism. Said a Washington official: "He will be a cursed...
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev (pronounced Bird-yah-yev) was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, but he was never orthodox in either religion or politics. He was exiled to northern Russia when he was 25 for declaring that the church under the Czars was subservient to civil power. After the revolution, he was twice imprisoned and later exiled for criticizing Marxism. In 1923 he went to live in Paris, where he headed the Russian Y.M.C.A. press, edited his magazine, Put', and wrote at least 40 books...