Word: orthodox
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...Hunters. According to orthodox theories, the first Americans were the Folsom and the Sandia men, whose ancestors crossed the Bering Strait from Asia. They were highly developed hunters, making beautiful stone weapons to kill dangerous game, and their level of culture was not much below that of Europeans of the same period. But if these up & coming hunters were the first, where did the more primitive Indians come from? Even in historical times, certain tribes in Patagonia and Lower California, for instance, had very low cultures. Between these backward people and those on the Folsom level were many cultural gradations...
...alma mater to the charter granted the Presbyterian "New Jersey College of New Jersey" in 1746. But in fact, this charter was never recorded and its validity is doubtful because it was issued by only an acting governor without permission of either the home government or the provincial legislature. Orthodox Anglicans seized this issue of legality and were pressing for annulment of the charter when Harvardman Jonathon Belcher, Class of 1699, stepped in to save the embryo college from extinction...
...Reform Judaism is like the green light urging one to go forward; Conservative Judaism is the yellow light, advocating caution in breaking with the past; and Orthodox Judaism is like the red: stop, and observe in the manner of traditional Judaism" . . . HOWARD M. WERTHEIMER Editor...
Intellectually, today's young people already seem a bit stodgy. Their adventures of the mind are apt to be mild and safe, and their literature too often runs to querulous and self-protective introspection, or voices a pale, orthodox liberalism that seems more second-hand than second nature. On the whole, the young writer today is a better craftsman than the beginner of the '205. Novelists like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner are precocious technicians, but their books have the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards. What some critics took...
...result the game bore little relation to orthodox soccer. Neither team could move the ball quickly, and the play tended to stick in the zone it was in because nobody could kick it out. The ball had to be dribbled up the field, and never bounced off the spongy turf at all but sank in, instead. Whenever the ball hit a puddle it would stop, though the player could not. He would overrun it and lose control with a resulting scramble in the puddle...