Word: dis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involve psychoanalysts and Freudian complexes but Stravinsky's Oedipus follows no such obvious trend. He wrote it when he was tired, perhaps incapable of cutting a trail any further into the forest of such untried dissonances and rhythms as he used in Le Sacre du Printemps. He had long dis carded the skirling imagery of Petrushka and The Firebird. When he wrote Oedipus he was deep in a desire to return to the classicists, anxious perhaps to begin all over again, to see where a new trail would take him. He chose an old, formal pattern fundamentally similar...
This proposal has been made from time to time, and is even said to be favored by the Bishop of Durham and a considerable body of Anglican clergymen and laymen. Essentially, however, it is the protest of the great body of British Dis-senters?Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap-tists?against the favored position of a Church to which they do not subscribe, but for whose upkeep they are taxed. If the proposal were to take effect, English Episcopalians would be obliged to support their own Church out of voluntary funds, and they would lose the prestige conferred by the presence...
...Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever see a shambling imbecile whose dis eased brain didn't defend its lunacy by snarling at others? To refer to him as a blubbering charlatan perhaps is charitable. Even a lunatic may not be charged with complete mental bankruptcy...
...Speaker (interjecting severely): I would remind the noble lady that it is a rule of this House not to say anything dis respectful of the Other Place (the House of Lords...
...bishop ranks him closer than the priests to God and much closer than the unhallowed members of the Church. Hence the men at Philadelphia - led by that persistent foe of Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, editor of the Chronicle - in demanding the electoral recall of bishops dis pleasing to the priests and laymen who chose them, demand something that is uncanonical, almost heretical...