Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starving. The 124 patients at the Birmingham (Ala.) Hillman Hospital were badly undernourished. They suffered from scurvy, pellagra, other starvation diseases. According to orthodox theory, their deficient diet should have ruined their teeth. But investigators found, to their surprise, that the 124 patients had only one-third as many cavities and missing teeth as well-fed people usually have...
...Arnold Toynbee answered: "To explain the history of your country or my country, the smallest unit that one can take into account is Western Christendom. . . . But it, too, turns out to be inadequate. . . . Western Christendom is merely one of five civilizations that survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination and effort of will to break our way out of the prison walls...
...seized and bussed on the forehead by tall, bearded Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. The occasion: presentation of the Great Holy Cross of the Knights of the All-Holy Sepulchre and a piece of the Cross of Christ, as the "highest blessing of the Greek Orthodox Church...
Alexei has had considerable success in encouraging pan-Slav propaganda and promoting other Soviet aims in the Iron Curtain countries. But elsewhere Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
Obviously, Bishop Benjamin would be difficult to convert to Alexei's viewpoint, best revealed in a recent statement: "The main thing the Russian Orthodox Church achieved during the war was to show the entire world its complete unity with its Government...