Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shabbes! Shabbes! ((Sabbath! Sabbath!))" shouted the ultra-Orthodox demonstrators in Jerusalem. Their complaint: that movies are being shown in the holy city on Friday night, in desecration of the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown. The marchers staged a peaceful rally at the Western Wall early last week, but come Friday dozens clashed with police. Authorities were forced to use tear gas and water cannons to break up the protests...
...stern upbringing owed as much to New England Puritanism as it did to Greek ethnicity. Dr. Nicholas Zervas, a close friend of Dukakis', describes Euterpe as a "really patrician woman. She would have made a wonderful Brahmin." Unlike many immigrant families, the Dukakises were not religious, supporting the Greek Orthodox Church primarily for cultural reasons. If anything, the family was governed by what Bakalar calls the "quintessential Protestant ethic. Whatever gifts you received, you had to give back. They really believed that money corrupted...
Arthur Hartman, who until earlier this year was U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, is particularly troubled by the unwarranted optimism he believes has erupted. "The little evidence we have is that this guy Gorbachev is a pretty orthodox fellow." Moscow's global ambitions and its "centralized authoritarian rule" seem unlikely to change, he says. "The Soviet Union is our antagonist and will be for the indefinite future...
Those who probably took the dimmest view of the trip were Czechoslovakia's Communist Party officials. Under their heavy hands, the Prague Spring of 1968 quickly gave way to sullen winter as the country became one of the most rigidly orthodox in the East bloc. Party Leader Gustav Husak, 74, installed by former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as Dubcek's replacement, has symbolized the backward-looking government's unimaginative face...
...years since a Greek Orthodox priest first raised the banner of revolution against Ottoman rule, affairs of church and state in Greece have been closely intertwined. Last week in Athens the church, under the leadership of Archbishop Seraphim, again raised its standard, this time against the Socialist government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. Black-robed priests joined more than 50,000 supporters outside Parliament, waving crucifixes and chanting, "Hands off the church...