Word: sprang
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Meaning v. Thought. Buber's work is influenced by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky. It is also inspired by an 18th century Jewish movement called Hasidism. The modern Hasidism (from the Hebrew hasid, meaning pious) sprang up in the Polish ghettos and followed the zaddikim, or holy men, who rebelled against excessive emphasis on law and scholarship, which seemed to confine Judaism. They were cheerful mystics who insisted on sharing their personal inspirations with the whole community. Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik. He too rebels against the overrigid emphasis...
...Definite Shift." The revival of belligerency apparently sprang from the Soviet leaders' assessment of their strength in south Asia, from which they had just returned. They came home arrogant with success. Said Bulganin: "The peoples of Asia have begun waking up and straightening their shoulders. The factors which contributed to this great awakening have been the great October [1917] Revolution in this country and the weakening of the colonial powers as a result of the first, and particularly the second, World War . . . The time would come, Lenin used to say, when hundreds of millions of people in Asia would...
...Gold Coast had sold out to the University during the war, a Gold Coast atmosphere still prevailed. Money determined the standard of living and only the club men had a regular place to eat. The three upper classes split up into tight cliques, and clubs and fraternity chapters sprang...
...issue was settled in the corridors, not on the rostrum. Next morning, after a few short speeches, the Assembly went straight to the vote. Government aides sprang to their telephones in a wild effort to rally Faure's supporters. The opposition did likewise. Ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez, making his first appearance since he suffered a stroke in 1950, limped in on a cane to cast a vote against Faure. But the dominant fact of the present Assembly is that it fears a return to power by Pierre Mendès-France more than it dislikes Edgar Faure...
...Methodist Board of Temperance headquarters in Washington, D.C. announced ruefully that during a three-month period ending in June, no less than 9,053 new liquor outlets sprang up in the U.S., while in all of 1954 the number of new churches increased by only 5,697. At present, according to the board, there are 141,733 more saloons, bars, cocktail lounges and liquor stores than there are houses of worship...