Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Devotees of St. George and St. Nicholas were more solemnly perturbed. In London, Tory M.P. John Biggs-Davison, a Roman Catholic, wondered if "Anglicans and Orthodox were consulted, in the spirit of Christian unity. Cavalrymen laying their wreath at St. George's statue, Scouts marching past the sovereign on St. George's Day will think no less of their patron, but they will think less kindly of Rome." In Washington, D.C., the Russian Orthodox community expressed its feelings by packing the church for a May feast day honoring St. Nicholas. Some Orthodox churchmen complained that Rome insulted their...
...they promise, they will reform the society, not violently tear it down. They will, so they say, respect civil rights and freedom of the press while bringing about a more equitable distribution of wealth. Some Western European reformers even envisage allowing political opposition. It is a notion that outrages orthodox Communists, who insist above all on the paramount control of the party...
Died. Robert Briscoe, 74, the irrepressible Orthodox Jew who was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1956-57 and 1961-62; in Dublin. No one was ever more fiercely Irish than "Bobby" Briscoe. He was an I.R.A. gunrunner in Ireland's struggle for independence, then an activist in the civil war that followed. In 1927 he was elected to the Irish Dail (Parliament) and his terms as Lord Mayor were marked by many trips abroad promoting trade and tourism. His election, said Briscoe, would show the world that "at least in Ireland there is absolute tolerance...
...most general sense a reaffirmation of the sanctity of irreverence. Precisely because its challenges are so dramatic on one level and yet so familiar on another, it draws strength from an inescapable tradition. Igor Stravinsky, almost certainly the century's greatest composer and one who moved independently of the orthodox avant-garde, more a less stated this tradition in his Poetics of Music...
...deep stick, rolled in one goal. Another one scored as players fought for the ball in front of the Crimson net, and Dartmouth's fifth tally came on a mysterious shot which went in as the cage came loose from its anchorings. The next two scores were more orthodox, and the Indian...