Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody Satisfied. Only two M.P.s spoke against the Emergency Powers Defense Bill, extremist Laborite David Kirkwood and Communist William Gallacher, who called it "deliberate attempt on the part of the ruling class to conquer the working class." Cracked back orthodox Laborite David Gilbert Logan at Red Willie, "It is about time that a voice like yours was silenced under Emergency Powers." Liberal Sir Richard Acland said he specifically hoped to see the Government "sending to the homes of people like myself and taking away valuable picture's, such as portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and other Old Masters...
...homeopaths, whose only knowledge of medicine was gained by mulling over the master's German writings (Organon; Chronic Diseases, Their Nature and Homeopathic Treatment; Materia Medica Pura), traveled from village to village handing out little colored sugar pills from their shabby black bags, fighting bitter trade wars with orthodox, "allopathic" physicians...
Hampered by official red tape, Fielden hired to help him tall, twinkle-eyed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, who, as a translator for the Army, had become an adept red-tape dodger. By introducing a series of talks on "Widow Remarriage," "Untouchability," etc. he shocked the orthodox public into listening to his Bombay station. Objections were many and various. His assistant was kidnapped, mortified by being left in a bathing suit on top of a hill...
...Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv and Phillips together and incidentally off the orthodox Party line was the blatant Soviet tyranny over culture, the Soviet political debacle of the Moscow Trials...
Heresy's chief weakness is that it begets further heresies. Last week the heretical Trotskyites read their own heretics out of the fold. Schism started when orthodox Russian Communists invaded Poland and Finland. Schachtmanites declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper...