Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wait a Minute." At war's end Murphy returned to George Washington, got his law degree, was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. He had always wanted to be a lawyer, but he indulged himself by taking Foreign Service exams simply because "I was curious to see if I could pass them." He did-and in April 1921, he was offered a place in the U.S. consulate at Zurich. He talked it over with his bride of one month, a former Red Cross worker named Mildred Claire Taylor, and accepted. Says Murphy: "We decided...
...country," he whispered. "If all my appeals bear no fruit, I shall leave Geneva and go to my cave in the Bernese Oberland near Fribourg. I will then start a new fasting period, this time unto eternity." Newsmen at the Palais des Nations guessed that Vo would continue his curious protest-just as Viet Nam would go on being partitioned...
...hill called Cumorah, situated near Palmyra, N.Y. (22 miles southeast of Rochester), is a holy place to the 1,500,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For three nights last week, the faithful and the curious gathered there in record numbers-some 135,000 in all-for the 17th Hill Cumorah Pageant, which depicts in dramatic terms the legendary origins of the Mormon faith...
...Curious Indiscretions. Thus began Orwell's difficult position in the hagiography of modern liberalism: though he started out on the left, he spent his best eloquence on exposing the left's hypocrisies. Orwell was honest enough to know that neither he nor any new society could change his nature; he knew that his Old School Tie set him off from other men in Britain, and he wore it with the same mixture of pain and pride as the Blessed John Ogilvie, a Jesuit missionary, might have shown toward the halter with which he was hanged at Glasgow...
...devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked tones: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters.' " Such indiscretions should have been more common at that time...