Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves. But he found the general literary picture today-except in poetry, which he condemned for its "stuttering incomprehensibility"-rather better than ever before. "We are lucky," he concluded, "that the present writing is heterogeneous, and that our best writers will follow their own stars," despite the criticism of orthodox schools of writing
...Israel, the Shofar's sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an Orthodox observance. Cantors and special prayer books were dispatched to Israel's army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled...
Resort hotels were booked solid by a younger generation to whom Rosh Hashana seemed little more than a two-day vacation. But in some Orthodox homes men received fish heads to symbolize their position as heads of families and honey was spread on bread to symbolize the coming of a sweet and fruitful year. Only in Jerusalem was there mourning-among the pious who could not hold their traditional services at the ancient Wailing Wall in the Arab-held Old City...
...question among Americanists (experts on New World anthropology) is: How original were the American Indians? The orthodox theory is that the first Indians immigrated from Asia (via Alaska) in the cultural nude and built the civilizations of Mexico and Peru without outside help. A minority theory agrees that the original immigrants were pretty bare of culture, but insists that Indian civilization got plenty of helpful hints from across the Pacific...
...bounty of a half ana (1?) for each rat caught. Others objected that if the bounty were raised, it would pay the city's poor to go into the business of rat-raising and Bombay would wind up with more rats than ever. Councillor Gordhandas Goculdas Moraji, an orthodox Hindu, shuddered at even considering rat extermination during the current festival in honor of Ganapati (Ganesha), an elephant-headed god who likes to ride around on a rat (see cut). Councillor Dinkar Dattatrya gave what he called the "socialist theory on rats": he declared that "only eradication of the slums...