Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jacket and tie, usually bows to the Israeli flag (no other Premier did this) and is scrupulously polite to his staff. His predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, was introverted, often seemed indecisive and headed a quarrelsome government tarred by corruption charges. Begin is an enthusiast, transparently honest, and a devoutly Orthodox Jew. Says a Labor-appointed official who was kept in his post by Begin: "The Premier is a very proud Jew, very conscious of history, very conscious of the Holocaust. He makes Jews all over the world, as a people, feel very proud of themselves...
...Evangelicals form a conservative minority of about one-third of the 36 million Protestants in "mainline" churches belonging to the National Council of Churches. In addition, 33.5 million are distributed among scores of orthodox Protestant groups outside the N.C.C...
...speaking in tongues and miraculous healing by prayer. The latter include everything from Episcopalians to nearly a million Roman Catholics, to oddball healers and assorted tent preachers. Most Evangelicals, though, are basically conventional Protestants who hold staunchly to the authority of the Bible in all matters and adhere to orthodox Christian doctrine. They believe in making a conscious personal commitment to Christ, a spiritual encounter, gradual or instantaneous, known as the born-again experience...
...such distressing symptoms as delusions, disordered reasoning, hallucinations, withdrawal and other bizarre behavior. In his classic studies, the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing has argued, almost poetically, that schizophrenia is only a reaction to the insanity around us-of parents, family and even society at large. Humbug, reply more orthodox physicians, who say that schizophrenia is most probably a result of a flaw in body chemistry...
...block to Orthodox growth remains ethnic rivalries, especially between the Russians and the larger, New York-based Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. It does not recognize the self-government granted to the Orthodox Church in America in 1970 by the Orthodox patriarch...