Word: orthodox
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Married. Maria Atalanti Livanos, 27, U.S.-born daughter of the late millionaire Greek shipowner George M. Livanos; and Stephane A. Cattaui, 32, French-Egyptian investment banker, vice president and Eurooean representative of Clark, Dodge & Co. Inc.; he for the second time; in a Greek Orthodox ceremony; in Manhattan...
...orthodox literary theory has been that there were two Hemingways: Ernest the Good and Ernest the Bad. Ernest the Good lived above a sawmill in Paris and worked night and day to become the best writer of his generation. With the help of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and the King James Bible, Ernest the Good learned to write books so true that, by his own definition, "after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: . . . the people and the places and how the weather...
...conditions in America. Discussing the decline of the Socialists after the First World War, Lasch argues that their downfall can be traced to the rise of Bolshevism within the movement. The Russian Revolution provided many American socialists with a new revolutionary model, a model which seemed to transcend orthodox Marxist categories. In their excitement, the American Bolsheviks tended to forget the total dissimilarities between conditions in Russia and America, and began to propagandize for a transplanting of the Russian Revolution to the United States. In so doing, the Bolsheviks reduced the Socialist movement to a group of internally divided...
Every Easter eve a vigil far older than Russia begins in the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, located in the village of Peredelkino, a residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. At midnight the clergy and members of the congregation walk in procession around the church and enter through its main doors to celebrate the Resurrection. The Soviet authorities discourage religion, but they tolerate this rite-after a fashion. Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes the vigil at Peredelkino in the following story. It is published here in translation for the first time...
...church walls, the believers, far from objecting, look around nervously for fear of getting a knife in the back, or of having their watches stolen-the watches on which they keep track of the remaining minutes before the Resurrection of Christ. Here, outside the church, they, the Orthodox, are much fewer than the grinning, milling rabble who oppress and terrorize them more than ever did the Tartars. The Tartars, surely, would have let up for Matins on Easter Sunday...