Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek war correspondents, was particularly interested in the problem of food. In one of his reports, discussed by Dr. Pan S. Codellas of the University of California Medical School in the Bulletin of the History, of Medicine, Philo describes the preparation of the Greek Ks: "Take squill [a bulb root, shaped like an onion], which, after having been boiled down, is ... cut into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar to a fine mass, knead it with...
Tree of Learning. The root stock of Masonry is the so-called Blue Lodge (see chart), which includes the first three degrees and is as far as the great majority of brethren ever progress. Degrees, for all their impressive titles, are simply grades in Masonry's school. In the Blue Lodge the brethren learn all they need to know to be good Masons, including the legend of Hiram Abif...
...these countries, Communist pressure on the church has been mounting. Its immediate goal is not to root out Catholicism but to reduce it to helpless captivity. The Kremlin succeeded in that policy with the once great Russian Orthodox Church, and it is trying to repeat the formula. The trial of Cardinal Mindszenty was part of the operation. The persecution in Hungary was followed by efforts to split the Church in Czechoslovakia away from Rome...
...Culture (TIME, March 21). The two men agree in their diagnosis of contemporary cultural trends-and draw totally opposite conclusions. The religious decline deplored by Eliot does not ruffle Lewis, who believes that "Christianity, as a unifier, became a bad joke long ago." The loss of regional differences and "roots," lamented by Eliot, is a joy to Lewis, who holds that "no American worth his salt should go looking around for a root...
...great failure of the book is Mr. Blanshard's unwillingness or inability to look to the root of some of the strange anomalies which he merely touches in scanning American Catholicism. Were he to investigate "the core of faith" which Catholic liberals cling to "even when they look with repugnance on the autocratic ecclesiastical system imposed upon the people by the priests," he might gain valuable insight into the more important non-political motives of the Church. As it is, his disdain for the hierarchy blinds the balance of his insight so that he never separates the mystic from...