Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honest God. Like Anglican C. S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters'), Dorothy Sayers specializes in reducing orthodox theology to everyday terms with what is sometimes considerable shock effect. The dogma that the son of Mary was nothing less than God himself, she writes, demonstrates that God "had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair . . . He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience . . . He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worth while...
Rabbi Herzog is not sightseeing in the U.S. Averaging about four hours' sleep a night, he is visiting 20 cities in 25 days, making two or three speeches each day, to raise money through United Jewish Appeal for the state of Israel. To Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews, whom he sees in nearly equal numbers, he says the same thing: it is the responsibility of U.S. Jews to give Israel material aid, in return for which they will get spiritual food. "In Israel," he says, "we have the responsibility of sustaining the spiritual lives of Jews all over...
...became chief rabbi in the Irish Free State. He was elected chief rabbi of Palestine in 1936, and there led his community of 500,000 members through Jewry's 13 most crucial and trying years since the destruction of the Temple (70 A.D.). As symbolic head of all Orthodox Jews, Dr. Herzog takes his position gravely. "I was the chief rabbi of Palestine," he said last week. "Now I am the chief rabbi of Israel. I am the same man, but there is a big difference...
...blare out cacophonous versions of Strauss waltzes, has been silent for weeks. The shouting, arm-waving throng of money changers has dwindled to a few clusters. Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else, has climbed dizzily...
...Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed on to form centers of Western thought in the Greek Orthodox state...