Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union last week than any other American statesman in cold-war history. Around the world the rustlings and whisperings of regular diplomacy all but came to a halt while the chancelleries cocked their ears toward Moscow. In Moscow, oddly enough, there were no negotiations at all in the orthodox diplomatic sense, but there were loud, serious, deadly earnest debates about the resources and strengths of the West and Communism. "One reason for the length of the debates," cabled TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr from Moscow, "is that Khrushchev finds it hard to believe that he cannot top Nixon...
Orders for Advice. Journeying to Jerusalem in a ten-car special train rented by his followers (for $1,500), the king of rabbis was greeted by banners spanning entire blocks of the Orthodox quarter-including Joel Street, named in his honor. From his suite in the neighborhood's top hotel, vacated for him and his party of 50, he handed out blessings and advice (tantamount to orders) to the hundreds that queued up for hours to see him. Occasionally, he leaned back in an armchair and dozed while others prayed. Teitelbaum has not slept...
...Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant to go to a church other than his own, or even require...
...Tough Way. The big change did not come in a twinkling. Humphrey's own Senate Class of 1948 was the last to go to Washington with Fair Deal liberals predominating. Since then, the old appeals have gradually faded. Many an orthodox liberal has lost his enthusiasm for big farm supports, big housing dreams, and big labor. And as the U.S. public has changed to a pay-as-you-go attitude, so have the liberals changed. "These men," says Indiana's freshman Democratic Congressman John Brademas of his classmates, "are well educated. Yet they have an earthiness about them...
...converts to Judaism: "Fifty years ago my Orthodox mother said that Judaism in America is doomed. [Today] we have Elizabeth Taylor. Marilyn Monroe, too. Now all we need is Jayne Mansfield and we'll have it made...