Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SEEKER (422 pp.)-Sinclair Lewis-Random House...
Thus far The God-Seeker reads somewhat like any other frontier novel, with Martin Arrowsmith cast as Anthony Adverse. When a revival meeting comes to Adams, however, and Aaron, aged 25, finds himself at the mourners' bench without quite knowing how he got there, the book takes on a distinctive air that makes it unusual among drum-and-petticoat books and also among Lewis' own 20 previous novels. Aaron Gadd tries to be a Christian...
...Stalin had used good words in a statement which he gave out to the world last week in the obvious hope that they would be accepted as an offer of peace. His real purpose quickly became clear. The good words had been timed to present Soviet Russia as a seeker of peace at the moment when the Western nations were concluding an alliance against Soviet aggression. Russia thus hoped to make the defensive North Atlantic pact look like an offensive act, and perhaps an unnecessary one. But while giving soft answers to a U.S. correspondent's questions, Russia...
...recommendations-the cases of Butterworth and Phillips-President Allen agreed. His own recommendation to the board of regents: concealed membership was dishonest. "A teacher may be ever so sincere in his belief in Communism, but can he at the same time be a sincere seeker after truth . . .? My answer ... is no." Last week, the board also answered no. Gundlach, Phillips, and Butterworth were fired. The other three were put on two-year probation...
...Irgun. Frankly jingoist, it demands a Jewish state including all of Palestine. Cried Beigin last week: "It is not a real peace while . . . the Arab legions stand on the Hill of the Holy Temple." His party violently denounces Ben-Gurion's peace efforts, attacks him as a seeker of power and prestige. "Have you heard?" runs one joke launched by Beigin's party: "Stalin is having delusions of grandeur. He walks up & down, beating his chest and saying: 'I am Ben-Gurion. I am Ben-Gurion...