Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before the Christians or the Communists got to Russia, pent finches, larks, blackbirds and pigeons were let out of their cages to symbolize the coming of spring. As time passed, the freeing of birds became part of the annual celebration of the Orthodox Feast of the Annunciation. Even under the stern materialism of Soviet rule. Russia's common man, himself pent beyond hope, continued to find a fleeting moment of freedom in the liberation of small winged creatures on April 7, the Day of the Birds...
...larger and more important issue was not daily chapel or religious regulation. It was Harvard's role as an essentially liberal community in an orthodox era that drew the most fire from critics...
...Against the Stream (Philosophical Library; $3.75), a collection of Barth's recent writings, largely on church and state problems, appeared in the U.S. The book clarifies Earth's political position and partly explains its connection with his rigid theology, with which U.S. theologians, be they as "neo-orthodox" as Barth himself, increasingly disagree. By what he says, Neutralist Barth marks himself as actually an indiscriminate "participationist." The essence of his church-state philosophy: the church must participate in the affairs of any state, Communist or not. "The State," says Barth, "is not a product...
Both Yardling captain Sigo Falk, entered in the butterfly event, and a four-man College relay team failed to qualify, but Hawkins's first in the butterfly and second in the orthodox breaststroke were enough to give the Crimson swimmers sixth place in the meet...
...theological system, Tillich has attempted to bring together liberal and orthodox Christianity. He advocates that the Christian, without losing his image of Christ as the Savior, must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy, and his culture to the circumstances of his time...