Word: polyglotting
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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...
...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...
...tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival...