Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Israel last week students in government-run secular schools were reacting with anger or, curiosity or boredom to a new course of teaching that would have shocked their Zionist forebears on the one hand and their Diaspora ancestors on the other. Orthodox Jews would have been horrified at the thought of a child growing up in Israel without knowing the words of a single prayer or the uses of candles on the Sabbath. And the zealous, Socialist-minded Zionists of a generation ago would never have exposed their children to religious rites, which they viewed as symbols...
...Cathedral, Dr. Porcello flung the rocks at a stained-glass window. He missed, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Later he learned that his daughter's marriage to her 30-year-old, former prep school English teacher had taken place three hours before Porcello, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and his Roman Catholic wife hadn't objected to their daughter's choice, merely wanted her to wait until she was older. Last week, in New York Magistrate's court, contrite Dr. Porcello ("I am glad that I did not hit a window; the hand...
...Lampoon has a social club aspect as well as an orthodox college activity aspect," the front man resumed. "As you have been told, we feel that the members of the group should get along together. That's why your election depends on how well you fit into the group as well as the quality of your writing...
Luther's slow rebellion during the next decade is a puzzling, fascinating story to theologian and psychiatrist alike. Tentatively, the earnest, orthodox-minded monk began to stray from the fold-and with every step he took, a new, hidden facet appeared in his character until he became the very opposite of his former self...
...million Africans, 90 million are Moslems, 90 million are animists. The 40 million Christians include roughly 19 million Catholics, 12 million Protestants and 8,000,000 members of Eastern Orthodox churches...