Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bobbie. He sweated and thumped at Schumann's The Happy Farmer, finally burst into tears. Gabriel handed Bobbie a baseball, told him, "Here, just for fun, see if you can play the melody with this." After a few minutes of baseball on the keys, Bobbie was ready for orthodox Schumann...
...Report on Dianetics (Julian Press; $3.50), he thinks he made a mistake. Founder Hubbard, says a disillusioned Dr. Winter, became more & more "absolutistic and authoritarian"; the foundation became less & less interested in research, more interested in spreading the word. Last winter Winter flounced out. He was finding orthodox dianetics "ritualistic and sterile...
...Chakko, president of Isabella Thoburn College at Lucknow, India. An indefatigable committeewoman, 46-year-old Miss Chakko is a member of India's Mar Thoma Church, which claims to have been founded by the Apostle Thomas. Also elected a World Council president was Archbishop Athenagoras of the Greek Orthodox Church, to replace the late Archbishop Germanos...
Histadrut & Mapai. The General Zionists don't care much about orthodox religion; they do care about orthodox economics. Pointing to a spectacular decline in the standard of living, the General Zionists campaigned against the tie-up between the Histadrut, the Israeli labor federation, and the cabinet, seven of whose 13 members (including B.G.) were Histadrut members. Histadrut is not only a trade union, enrolling 75% of all Israeli workers; it is also, by far, Israel's largest industrial employer, owning or managing 14% of all the nation's industry, including a virtual monopoly on cement production...
...tempered B.G. had blasted the General Zionists as a political aggregation of black-marketeers, the Orthodox bloc as fanatics, the Mapai as fellow travelers. Unless he swallowed some of his campaign oratory, his only possible partners in a new coalition would be such splinter groups as the Progressives (four seats), the pro-Mapai Arabs (five seats), the Mizrachi Religious Workers (eight seats), the Yemenites (one seat). Joined with them, B.G.'s Mapai could command a bare hold on the Parliament. In that case, Israel stood in danger of becoming, in Ben-Gurion's own phrase, "a second France...