Word: michael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years a small band of Doukhobors in Hilliers, on Vancouver Island, have struggled to establish a "Spiritual Community of Christ." It was started by Michael ("The Archangel") Verigin, who decided that other "Douks" were losing sight of original Doukhobor tenets and becoming worldly and materialistic. Unlike other British Columbia Doukhobors, the new community stressed the old precepts of non-violence and communal sharing of all property, including husbands & wives. Its ruling elders decreed that until the colony was economically self-sufficient, no children should be born to any member...
Actually, his story is too diffuse and impersonal to be read as an ordinary novel of character and situation. It is rather a chronicle of events, told through the actions of characters who themselves seldom understand and never control the events: British Major Michael Walker, who directs an Athens underground during the Nazi occupation; U.S. Airman Tommy McPhail, whose plane has been shot down over Greece and who wants to be gotten back to his base; royalists and Communists; patriots and plotters; Greek girls and English girls, and one calculating American number in a Red Cross uniform...
...entirely underground; when known Chinese Communists are caught, they are deported. Siam's 30,000 Communist party members have no real leader, but the man most frequently tagged as their boss is slender, ferret-faced Ku Kip, a Chinese Communist veteran who saw service under notorious Comintern Agent Michael Borodin...
...receiving their mail is Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine, a new, highbrow whodunit monthly. As our story said, Hall, an ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British Army veteran, got the British post office to recognize the mythical 221 B* as a real address and assign it to his forthcoming magazine...
Other critics of Britain's universities disagree. Editor Michael Oakeshott, in the Cambridge Journal, argues that no new tradition is needed, that the most a university has to give is "the gift of an interval ... a break in the tyrannical course of irreparable events...