Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mattson of North Carolina completely outdistanced the field in the orthodox breaststroke, winning with a 2:26.4. His 2:26.1 in the trial heats, however, breaks both the 2:26.9 intercollegiate record that has been applied for, and the Yale pool mark of 2:28.4 that Eli freshman Charles Hardin set two weeks...
Young Father Bissonnette had looked forward to a routine departure this spring, when another Assumptionist priest was to replace him. The sudden expulsion was obviously an act of retaliation for U.S. refusal to extend the visitor's visa of Metropolitan Boris, Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Church of North America, who left Manhattan last week after his prescribed stay of 60 days...
When the chair of Byzantine Theology is added, the university will become, according to Gordon Huggins '29, Executive Secretary of the fund drive, "The only place in the world to do graduate study in the theology of the Orthodox Church, principal religious group of Russia and the Middle East." Students in the Byzantine-Middle Eastern program will be able to use such facilities as the Russian Research Center and the Jewett, Hancock, Littauer, and Fry professorships. Newly-appointed University Professor Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, world-famed Oxford authority on the Middle East, may also give courses of Islam...
...Some orthodox psychiatrists have performed thousands of lobotomies, in which a knife is slashed through the cortex, the most essentially human part of the brain. Some do not hesitate to give patients scores or even hundreds of electric or insulin-shock treatments, or to put them in an insulin coma. Alongside these procedures, the red-brick school points out, the use of chlorpromazine and reserpine is gentle. It can make the patient readily accessible if the overworked psychiatrist has a few minutes to practice psychotherapy on him. If psychotherapy can prove its worth even in psychoses, these drugs give...
While turning out National Junior free style and backstroke champions, Brooks nevertheless seems to have specialized in the orthodox breaststroke...