Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prophesied: "The reunion of the Church will come, and today there are many signs of its coming." Contact "between the Anglican churches and the great Catholic Orthodox churches of the East is growing constantly closer...
Formerly the nation's only starboard stroked crew, Old Nasau has this year returned to more orthodox ways, will rely on outdistancing the opposition, not confusing them...
Intense, eager Theologian Niebuhr seems as paradoxical as his analysis of Christian doctrine. Noted as he is among churchmen for his neo-orthodox theology, he is almost as well known among intellectual liberals for his unorthodox politics. His writing is knotty, intellectual and forbidding; in speaking he has such a hard time keeping up with his racing mind that his words are accompanied by furious arm-flailings and face-twistings that sometimes make him look-though never sound -like an oldtime, fire-and-brimstone revivalist...
...religion. A high point of Niebuhr's theological recognition came in 1939, when he was invited to deliver the esteemed Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh.* The lectures, published later as the two-volume Nature & Destiny of Man (TIME, March 24,1941), form the substance of Niebuhr's neo-orthodox theology...
...attempt falls into two parts. The first part, which covers Stalin's dingy boyhood † and his youth as a Greek Orthodox seminarist and, later, a revolutionary political organizer and jailbird, suffers from lack of documentation. Trotsky scrupulously indicates the variegated reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful...