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...weeks past, the news of his coming had been heard amidst the clatter of traffic on Bangkok's twisted, crowded streets. Peddlers had passed it from sampan to sampan along the winding, traffic-jammed klong (canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing...
...Revolution seemed at first to be a step which would greatly accelerate the process of Westernization . . . [But] the Soviet leaders have 'abandoned the idea of the Renaissance and are now in the process of developing a pattern of culture as burdened with dogma as . . . anything known in the past millennium...
...April issue of the Jewish monthly Commentary, Author Herberg says that the synagogues have benefited from a new pride felt by U.S. Jews in their faith. During the past two decades, the horror of the Nazi persecution and the triumph of the new state of Israel "have helped reverse the trend toward assimilation." To identify themselves with Jewish culture, Herberg suggests, more & more U.S. Jews have turned to the synagogues: "America does know a free variety and plurality of religions, and it is as a member of a religious group that the great mass of Americans understand the status...
Hidden Sparks. The U.S. synagogue is no longer a community of believers, Herberg says. "This means that, in a very, basic respect, the synagogue of today is no longer the synagogue of the entire Jewish past. There have always been unbelievers . . . but in former times these people . . . were held in reproach by themselves and their fellow Jews. Only since the last century, and perhaps only in the past generation or two, has it become 'normal' for ... synagogue members to believe in and observe nothing in particular. This is surely something portentous...
Seniors registered a 47.5 percent total on dean's list for the past term, topping the College. They fall short of the freshman increase over last year by a few tenths of a percentage point...