Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others ... it is a first look at something brand-new to their thinking. These come to us as religious illiterates. They are totally ignorant of Biblical literature . . . What they find, when they look for a first time with relatively mature minds at the Hebrew Epic, the Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they...
...connoisseurs of incompetence. Let us look at some of the vintage years-1947, 1949 and 1951." With that, he neatly skewered the Labor Chancellors of those years: Hugh Dalton, Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell. "Each Labor Vintage Chancellor," Butler charged, "produced his own distinctive crisis with his own particular brand of incompetence...
...graduate of The Bronx's College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...
...cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider of the purple page, may be -better custodians of the cowboy than two teachers trying to put the brand of their scholarship on the twitching flanks of popular legend...
Cameron Hawley (Executive Suite) has fashioned the better book around an up-to-the-minute brand of millionaire. Cash McCall is a jut-jawed dynamo who buys depressed companies cheap, jacks them up into profitable operation and sells them dear. Men who do not know him hate him and call him nasty names, e.g., "operator," "raider," "wrecker...