Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orthodox Marxism holds that society operates in accordance with determined economic laws; this view minimizes the personal element in history. However, the Soviet State that has actually evolved is a dictatorship rooted in the principle of infallible personal leadership. This irreconcilable conflict of ideas prevents Soviet thinkers from agreeing on a definition of what the Soviet State is which leaves the philosophers in the position of being ordered to "militantly advance the spirit" of a thing they cannot define...
...buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins, they were on the march...
Divide & Weaken. The free-for-all was finally joined by somebody who really knows Yugoslavia, even though he has not been there for six years: the Rt. Rev. Iriney Georgevich, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, now living in exile in the U.S. Said he: "I was shocked. . . . I cannot understand how as servants of God [the seven Protestants] can accept so gladly an invitation from one of the most ruthless tyrannies the world ever has known. I can only ask these clergymen whether they would have thought it proper to accept an invitation from Hitler. . . . The tactics used by Tito...
...Keynote. Yet an air of solid habit had begun to pervade U.N.'s halls. Faces grew familiar. Delegates had learned their way to conference rooms, bars and washrooms. Recently, when an ultra-orthodox Moslem member of the Egyptian delegation spread his prayer rug just off the press bar, nobody paid any attention (except a helpful British journalist who told the Moslem which way was east...
...Cows are sacred to Hindus, who do not eat beef. Orthodox Hindus will not even wear leather shoes. Cow killing is prohibited in most princely states. It is not prohibited by British...