Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel describes how Satan ("the master") comes to Moscow in the 1930s to cast a spell on the inhabitants. The characters, all lacking orthodox Marxian solemnity, range from a talking cat to a chambermaid who flits about her employer's flat in fluttering nudity. One of its most interesting scenes is a re-enactment of Christ's encounter with...
Catholics & Conscience. The pill poses two grave moral problems. The first affects Roman Catholics and, for different theological reasons, the smaller number of Orthodox Jews. Not until 1930 did the Vatican modify the Augustinian rule that sex must be for procreation, when Pope Pius XI approved the rhythm method. The Vatican has banned all mechanical and chemical contraception. But Dr. Rock, an unswerving Catholic, has been arguing ever since he sired the pill that its use imitates nature-which occasionally, but only occasionally, makes a woman skip ovulation-and that it should therefore be approved by the Vatican...
...Author! Author!" [March 17], on dissenting writers in Communist countries, is an illuminating report on a significant development in the political and cultural climate of the post-Stalin era. Besides this cultural protest, there exists also an ecclesiastical dissent, particularly evident in the Russian Orthodox Church and among the Baptists in the Soviet Union...
...Christian rituals, few are subject to more varied interpretation than confirmation. For Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, it is one of the seven sacraments instituted by Christ; for Protestants it is a church-created rite signifying the recipient's mature acceptance of faith. Despite the differences, both Catholics and Protestants are currently giving new thought to the meaning of confirmation-and to the age at which it should take place...
Died. Sir Victor Gollancz, 73, British publisher and idealist of the left, founder in 1928 of London's immensely successful Victor Gollancz Ltd. (among his authors: Daphne du Maurier, George Orwell, John le Carré, Kingsley Amis), who was born into an orthodox Jewish family, but chose instead to live out what he regarded as "the Christian ethic," becoming an ardent socialist and Labor Party pamphleteer in his politics and a humanitarian in all else, espousing such diverse causes as the abolition of capital punishment, postwar relief for Germany, aid for Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli...