Word: pilgrimate
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...Pilgrim Stock. El Tor strains of cholera vibrios take their name from a Sinai Peninsula quarantine station where they were originally found in Mecca-bound Moslem pilgrims. The strains were long thought to be harmless, but recently they proved to be the cause of a deadly epidemic in Indonesia...
Filth on the Floor. It was Teddy Roosevelt whose Administration had to contend with the muckrakers, and it was Teddy who gave them their name. Riled by David Graham Phillips' attacks on the Senate, Roosevelt drew an analogy from Pilgrim's Progress: "You may recall the description of the Man with the Muckrake, the man who could look no way but downward, with a muckrake in his hands; who was offered a celestial crown for his muckrake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown that was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth...
...Crucible, built on the Salem witch trials, deals with the conscience of a community stirred to a storm of hatred and terror by the sexual fantasies of Abigail Williams, a wanton teen-age Pilgrim ("Come to me now," she sings, "as you came before, like some great stallion wildly pantin' "). Ward, expertly assisted by Librettist Bernard Stambler, retained the shape of the Miller play almost intact-and also much of the language...
...journey begins in Bombay on a day when the city's sewers, much to the misfortune of our "pilgrim," were left open by mistake. The stench which greeted Mr. Koestler on his arrival apparently followed him through his stay in India. He remains constantly amazed at the overwhelming poverty of the Indian peasantry. The observation that philosophy was doing little to relieve the misery which prevaled throughout the entire country, seems to have undermined whatever respect he may have had for Indian metaphysics...
...original purpose of the "pilgrimage;" Mr. Koestler ends up explaining what should be done to cure the ills of India and completely abandons the possibility that the country might have some lesson to offer the West. Having thus disposed of the total of Indian culture in 162 pages, the "pilgrim" is ready for his journey to Japan...