Word: cathedra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cathedrals (which take their name from cathedra, a bishop's chair or throne) must go, said a bishop last week. Reno's Roman Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer, who blasted Nevada's nightclub nudity last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 18), told a study group in Cincinnati that the concept underlying the cathedral has "lost its reference and validity for the age we live...
...language is his own judgment. Says he: "I have a pretty strong ear and I have confidence in it. During the writing of the book, I kept three hats handy. When I was in doubt, I clapped one or the other on my head and issued an opinion ex cathedra...
Unprepared for such ex-cathedra approval, New York Republicans gasped. Then they made frantic noises about other desirables, e.g., State Assembly Speaker Oswald Heck, Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney, and said it certainly would be nice if there could be an open nominating convention...
...show. What viewers saw was a sudsy narrative with all the impact of a souffle hitting a concrete wall. In a slick amalgam of film and live TV, Teresa Wright played Gossipist Louella to near-perfection, catching the whining needle of the Parsonian voice and delivering ex cathedra pronouncements on Louella's likes (dancing, pretty clothes, dogs, young people, food and Hollywood) and dislikes (being called "Lolly," being lied to about stories, being doublecrossed by news sources). Lolly's headlong pursuit of trivia was highlighted by interviews with a passel of film folk, enabling Climax! to boast that...
...referring to one of Governor Herter's judiciary bills, the one which would set up a number of courts wholly devoted to juvenile delinquency. Judge Tomasello's opinion is interesting not so much for its content as for the forum from which it was made. He delivered it ex cathedra, from his high bench, in the course of a decision on a case before...