Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesuits, like other factions within the church, are running blindly first in one direction, then the other. It is a helter-skelter rush past the actual problems besieging the human race. What is amazing is the polyglot of practices and beliefs attributed to the strikingly simple philosophy of one man-Jesus...
...20th century values, is sympathetic to the dreams of Californians, he is quick to point out the false and narrow ideals Californians often had. London's delusions are only one example in the long history of the California mind going astray. The first visitors viewed with disgust the polyglot racial mix of Hispanic California, while later Protestant settlers hated the Catholics. Starr dutifully chants the litany of violent gold rush crimes and horrible racist acts against Indians and Chinese, but he makes it clear that these social realities are secondary matters. "...California concealed its sins and all but banished...
...Woodstock abandoned its country retreat altogether to move to New York City's clangorous, ecumenical Upper West Side, where its students could live cheek by jowl with rabbinical candidates and Union Theological Seminary's liberal Protestants. They would also be able to minister to the whole polyglot, polycaste world of the Secular City, and that they did-tutoring in Harlem, working in the U.N., in drug clinics, in mental health, with the aged. Last week the 125 seminarians were called together and told that their noble experiment had come to an end. On orders from the Jesuit Superior...
...hard to see why. Heinz, 34, has drawn heavily upon his own funds and talents to represent the polyglot residents of his district, which includes the northern and southwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh. In a single year he has built up one of the best political organizations in the western part of the state. A former advance man for Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Heinz is already being eyed as a possible successor for Scott's seat...
...World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign...