Word: orthodox
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Bernard Lieberman was reared a child of privilege in a small town outside Lodz, Poland. He was one of nine children in an Orthodox Jewish family that lived largely off the money of affluent relatives and regularly opened up its home to poor neighbors. But that comfortable life swiftly ended on Sept. 1, 1939, when the Nazis stormed into Poland. Only 19, Bernard was soon separated from his siblings and transported from camp to camp, doing time in Auschwitz-Birkenau...
...panel's organizers, praised the panelists, saying they are not "orthodox people." They were "people who took the unusual path" in arriving at their current jobs, she said...
...deal to be dealing with the head of the CIA," says a senior State Department official. The P.L.O. chairman and Tenet have taken pains to cultivate each other. During Tenet's first visit to the West Bank in 1996, Arafat arranged for Tenet, who is Greek Orthodox, to tour Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, guided by the Greek Orthodox priests who help...
...Australian Impressionists, whose most gifted members were Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts. Between them they created a landscape idiom that would last for decades and is still enormously popular there today: the blue-and-gold bush, with its clear light and exquisite transparencies. They weren't Impressionists in the orthodox, French sense--their work had nothing to do with Monet, for instance; their sources lay in late 19th century French realism and, above all, in the work of Whistler...
...Washington and on Wall Street regard Cardoso as their best hope to preserve the credibility of the capitalist discipline they've sold to emerging markets during the past decade, a discipline now crumbling from Moscow to Malaysia. "They're seeing Brazil's struggle as a crucial stand for the orthodox model," says Emily Alejos, vice president for emerging markets at BEA Associates investment firm in New York City. And because it is the linchpin of the dynamic South American market, Alejos adds, "letting Brazil succumb to the global contagion would mean Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries following...