Word: woven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case in point was the question, "I regard active connection with a synagogue as essential to my religious life." Many of those who replied in the affirmative were among the least frequent participants in synagogue activities. Significantly, the Orthodox Jews, whose religion is woven inextricably with daily life, indicated less than 15 per cent affirmative. Among Conservative Jews over 20 per cent regarded synagogue connection as essential, while Reform Jews showed the highest number affirmative, 30 per cent...
Before and during the Depression, U.S. labor battled bravely and sometimes bloodily to win its rights and correct imbalances. But the victory was so complete that the rights were soon woven into everyday U.S. economic life. Meanwhile, the laws drawn to protect underdog labor came to serve, in big segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written...
...cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells. Without evidence of conscious effort, Kulukundis has managed to sketch characters who develop as they interact with each other, not with the author's conception of them. And his fast and clean style complements the carefully woven story he tells...
...direct result of the crushing defeat of Japan in the Pacific war, the unsettling occupation of the green and pleasant islands by U.S. troops, and the new constitution established by the conqueror, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception" of his own divinity, and the sweeping abolition of the stiff-necked nobility, to the entirely novel proposition (in famed Article 24 of the constitution) of equal marital status for women. Michiko partook...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Into this skillfully woven basket of short stories, the author tenderly places seven "twisted apples"-the maimed, the infantile, the impotent-that have fallen from the tree of life...