building, -building, vain repetitions, pagan, heathen, Gentiles, Galileans

Several films have been criticised for casting gentiles as Jewish figures. They include “Golda” and a biopic of Leonard Bernstein starring Bradley Cooper (in a controversial prosthetic nose)

The concept of the heathen “stem[s] from Americans’ conviction that other people need to be transformed” and undergirds “a White American Christian superiority complex,” according to this nuanced and illuminating study from Kathryn Gin Lum.

Readers will gain new insight into the roots of “White Protestant American” exceptionalism. Publishers Weekly6

 He was an ancient both in thought and predilection, inspired by classicism even more acutely than the founding fathers he revered. Plato was his companion, and “the Agora” his word for the braying marketplace of public taste. Suetonius’s “Twelve Caesars”, he said, persuaded him to be an essayist. His closest avatar was probably the emperor Julian in his novel of 1964, the noble lonely pagan against the Galileans, for whom he fashioned “one last wreath of Apollonian laurel to place upon the brow of philosophy”, before the barbarians smashed the gates. Indeed there was, in his gilded youth, the air of an “archaic Apollo” about him, as one admirer sighed to another in his memoir “Palimpsest”. Therein, as on ancient parchment, he scratched and then erased the names of all the people he had met but never wanted to know—save Jack and Jackie Kennedy, step-relations, whose names he dropped whenever he could.


Allawi wins Iraqi election, begins coalition-building
The Iraqiya party of former prime minister Ayad Allawi has been declared winner of Iraq's elections in preliminary results. announced Friday. Now Allawi must focus on finding coalition partners.

Nation-building refers to the process of constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. This process aims at the unification of the people or peoples within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run. Nation-building can involve the use of propaganda or major infrastructure development to foster social harmony and economic growth.

 vain repetitions

Matthew 6:7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans ...
And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think ...
But when ye pray, use not {c} vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they ...
6:7你們禱告、不可像外邦人、用許多重複話．他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。

heathen

/ˈhiːð(ə)n/

noun

DEROGATORY

1. a person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do.

   "my brother and I were raised, as my grandma puts it, as heathens"

team-building



building
n.

1. Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.
2. The act, process, art, or occupation of constructing.

Galilean

  音節

Gal • i • le • an¹

発音

gæ`ləlíːən

Galileanの変化形

Galileans (複数形)

[形]ガリラヤ(Galilee)（人）の.

━━[名]

1 ガリラヤ人.

2 ((the G-))((軽蔑))＝Jesus.